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Complexity Digest 2005.52 Next Issue TOP

  1. Breakthrough Of The Year: Evolution In Action, Science
    1. Evolution: Is the "Big Bang" in Animal Evolution Real?, Science
  2. Stem Cell Controversy: Scientist Is Retracting Landmark Finding, Science News
    1. Out, Out Damn Gene!, Science Now
    2. Slowly, Cancer Genes Tender Their Secrets, NY Times
    3. Gene Therapy: Putting the Fingers On Gene Repair, Science
  3. New Tamiflu-Resistant Bird Flu Cases Stir Fears, New Scientist
    1. More Tamiflu Resistance in Bird Flu, Science Now
  4. Synchronization Reveals Topological Scales in Complex Networks, arXiv
    1. Space And Contact Networks: Capturing The Locality Of Disease Transmission, Interface
  5. The Evolution Of Hyperactivity, Impulsivity And Cognitive Diversity, Interface
  6. Immunology: Jawless Fish Have Form of Adaptive Immunity, Science
    1. Nervous System's Role In Fatal Heart Rhythm Studied, Innovations-report
    2. New Neurons Take Baby Steps In The Adult Brain, Johns Hopkins Medicine
  7. Age Of Information Overload, CNN/AP
    1. Satellite Navigation: Europe's Answer to GPS Could Be a Boon for Research, Science
  8. Warped Geometry Speeds Airline Boarding, News@Nature
    1. "Going Back to Our Roots": Second Generation Biocomputing, arXiv
    2. Beyond Barcodes: Complex DNA Taxonomy, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  9. Researchers Develop New Method For Studying 'Mental Time Travel', Princeton University news release
    1. Reindeer Rhythms Run Free, Science Now
  10. Maintaining Consumption Styles Means Longer Workdays For U.S. Workers, Connecticut College Press Release
    1. Flogging A Dead Horse, New Scientist
    2. Leadership Series: Building a Successful Business, Stabroek News
  11. When A Deathtrap Becomes A Free Lunch, New Scientist
  12. Ant Iron Chefs: Larvae Fix Dinner But Don't Sneak Snacks, Science News
  13. Animal Superpowers, New Scientist
    1. The 50 Best Robots Ever, Wired
  14. Looking For A Creator's Signature In Space, New Scientist
  15. An Early, Muddy Mars Just Right for Life, Science
    1. Creating First Synthetic Life Form, Globe and Mail Update
  16. Squirt Alert, Science News
  17. A Crackling Christmas Mystery, New Scientist
  18. Mr. Cheney's Imperial Presidency, NY Times
    1. Fractal Poverty Traps, World Dev.
    2. U.S., Citing Abuse in Iraqi Prisons, Holds Detainees, NY Times
    3. U.S. Airstrikes Take Toll on Civilians, Washington Post
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Court Bars Transfer of Padilla To Face New Terrorism Charges, Washington Post
    2. Time for Chemical Plant Security, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2005.51 Next Issue TOP

  1. Internet Encyclopaedias Go Head To Head, Nature
    1. Wikipedia Survives Research Test, BBC News
  2. At Stake: The Net As We Know It, Business Week
  3. Busted! A Crisis In Cryptography, New Scientist
  4. Surface Story - Inspired By Spiral Soap Films, Mathematicians Zero In On A Novel, Economical, And Infinite Helix, Science News
  5. Three Technology Companies Join To Finance Research, NY Times
    1. White Biotechnology: Differences In US And EU Approaches?, Trends in Biotech.
  6. The Turkey Test - Neural Network Sorts The Blockbusters From The Flops, New Scientist
  7. Space 'Spiders' Could Build Solar Satellites, New Scientist
  8. An Asymmetric World, Nature
    1. Fluid Dynamics: Drat Such Custard!, Nature
    2. Chaos And Threshold For Irreversibility In Sheared Suspensions, Nature
  9. Brain Training Puts Big Hurt On Intense Pain: Volunteers Learn To Translate Imaging Data Into Neural-Control Tool, Science News
    1. How Brainpower Can Help You Cheat Old Age, New Scientist
  10. Fantastic Voyage Into The Heart Delivers A Protector Against Heart Failure, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  11. Developmental Biology: A Message To The Back Side, Nature
    1. How E. Coli Bacterium Generates Simplicity From Complexity, ScienceDaily
  12. Context-Dependent Vocal Mimicry In A Passerine Bird, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    1. Cognitive Ornithology: The Evolution Of Avian Intelligence, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  13. First Images Of Baby Squid Care, BBC News
  14. Civilisation Has Left Its Mark On Our Genes, New Scientist
    1. Transport On Fractal River Networks: Application To Migration Fronts, Theor. Population Biol.
  15. Complexity, System Integration, And Susceptibility To Change: Biodiversity Connection, Ecol. Complexity
  16. Hawaii's Coral Trees Feel The Sting Of Foreign Wasps, Science
  17. Judge Rules Against 'Intelligent Design' In Class, New Scientist
  18. Natural Disasters: The Chaos To Come, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Us, Israel Strengthening Hamas - Latin Patriarch, Reuters
    2. Editorial: Going Too Far, Washington Post
    3. Revolt Of The Professionals, Washington Post
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Complexity Digest 2005.50 Next Issue TOP

  1. Understanding The Oceans Microbes Is Key To The Earth's Future, Innovations-report
  2. Ogre to Slay? Outsource It to Chinese, NY Times
    1. A Predictive Theory of Games, arXiv
  3. Cancer Biology: Emissaries Set Up New Sites, Nature
    1. Nonsense Mutations: Running The Red Light, Nature
  4. Mouse Study: New Muscle-Building Agent Beats All Previous Ones, Johns Hopkins Medicine News
    1. Trace Of Human Stem Cells Put In Unborn Mice Brains, The Associated Press
  5. Thought Control Brings Pain Into Line, Nature News
  6. On Ants, Bacteria and Dynamic Environments, arXiv
    1. Scaling Up Keystone Effects From Simple To Complex Ecological Networks, Ecol. Lett.
    2. Arctic Orcas Highly Contaminated, BBC News
  7. Biomechanics: No Force Limit On Greyhound Sprint Speed, Nature
    1. Genomics: The Dog Has Its Day, Nature
  8. Sober Worm Cracked, Techworld
  9. The Message Of The Quantum, Nature
    1. Quantum Information: Remember That Photon, Nature
  10. Instant Nano Blocks: One-Step Process Makes Trillions Of DNA Pyramids, Science News
  11. Setting The Standard For Computer Models Of Life, ScienceDaily
    1. Bacterial Self-organisation and Computation, arXiv
    2. The Sum of the Parts, Science News
  12. Buckyballs Could Disrupt Functioning Of DNA, New Scientist
  13. How To Create A Crystal Made Entirely Of Holes, New Scientist
    1. Water: Ins And Outs Of Ice Nucleation, Nature
  14. Exploring Caves with Hopping Microbots, Astrobiology Magazine
  15. Breakthrough Chip Delivers Better Digital Pictures For Less Power, University of Rochester News
  16. Cyborg Suits Strut the Catwalk, Wired News
  17. Connotate Looks Beyond Traditional Search, NY Times
  18. Supreme Court to Hear Dispute on Texas Redistricting, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. US Blocks ICRC Access To Suspects, BBC News
    2. Allegations Of Secret US Jails In Europe are 'Credible', Financial Times
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Complexity Digest 2005.49 Next Issue TOP

  1. Science In The Web Age: The Expanding Electronic Universe, Nature
    1. Let Data Speak To Data, Nature
    2. Science In The Web Age: Joint Efforts
    3. Science In The Web Age: The Real Death Of Print, Nature
  2. What's Wrong With Intelligent Design As Science?, UniOrb
  3. Arbiter Of Taste: Energy Molecule Transmits Flavor To Brain, Science News
    1. Caffeine Can Improve Short-Term Memory, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  4. Discovering Hidden Viral Piracy, Bioinformatics
    1. Network Inoculation: Antivirus Shield Would Outrace Cyber Infections, Science News
    2. Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet, New Scientist
  5. Tell Laura I Love Her, New Scientist
  6. Global Warming And The Gathering Storm, New Scientist
  7. The Principles Of Collective Animal Behaviour, Phil. Tran. Biol.Sc.
    1. Self-Engineering Capabilities Of Bacteria, Interface
    2. Quasi-Species and Aggregate Dynamics, arXiv
  8. Computational Modeling of Protocell Division: A Spatially Extended Metabolism-Membrane System, arXiv
  9. Bees Recognize Human Faces, Science Now
    1. Ganging Up on the Girls, Science Now
    2. 'New Mammal' Seen In Borneo Woods, BBC News
  10. A 'Periodic Table' Of Natural Products, ScienceDaily
  11. Sony Super Fuel Cell Film, Digital World Tokyo
  12. Nanochannels Don't Feel The Humidity, Science Now
    1. New Nano Material Is Far Tougher Than Diamonds, The Jerusalem Post
  13. Robots Aim To Explore And Build On Other Worlds, New Scientist
    1. IBM Introduces Self-Healing Data Center Software, CNET News
  14. California Teen Wins Science Competition For A New Approach To Airplane Wings, Associated Press
  15. For Environmental Balance, Pick Up A Rifle, NY Times
  16. Fixing The Game, NY Times
    1. New Twist In Texas Districting Dispute, NY Times
    2. Justice Staff Saw Texas Districting As Illegal, Washington Post
  17. Iraq's Death Squads, The Washington Post
    1. What Would J.F.K. Have Done?, NY Times
  18. Pentagon Pays Iraqi Papers To Print Its 'Good News' Stories, Guardian
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake, The Washington Post
    2. Imported Brains, NY Times
    3. A Formula for Disaster, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2005.48 Next Issue TOP

  1. Energy In California: Power Struggle, Nature
    1. Reconfiguring Environmental Governance: Towards A Politics Of Scales And Networks, Polit. Geo.
  2. Looking For Alien Intelligence In The Computational Universe, New Scientist
  3. Life Is What You Make It, Nature
    1. Synthetic Biology: Designs On Life, Nature
    2. Design Principles Of A Bacterial Signalling Network, Nature
  4. Human Dynamics: The Correspondence Patterns of Darwin and Einstein, arXiv
  5. The Network Of Collaboration Among Rappers And Its Community Structure¡¨, arXiv
  6. Expression Of Endorphin Gene Favored In Human Evolution, Science
  7. Software Shakes Up Schizophrenia Diagnosis, Nature
    1. Computer Game Sharpens Aging Minds, Science
    2. Quantum Computing: A Bit Chilly, Nature
  8. Staring Into The Dark [Insomnia, Ed.], Science News
  9. Frizzled At The Cutting Edge Of The Synapse, Science
    1. Complexities And Uncertainties Of Neuronal Network Function, Phil. Tran. Biol.Sc.
  10. Scale-free Networks in Cell Biology, arXiv
  11. Neuroscientists Put Gene Therapy Into Reverse, Nature
  12. A Dissemination Strategy for Immunizing Scale-free Networks, arXiv
  13. Method Grows Vessels From One's Own Cells, Science News
  14. Bats Have A Feel For Flight, Science
  15. Nanotechnology And The End Of Moore's Law?, Bell Labs Tech. J.
    1. Super-Compressible Foamlike Carbon Nanotube Films, Science
  16. Researchers Turn Up The Heat In Superconductivity Hunt, Science
  17. Saturn's Strangest Ring Becomes Curiouser And Curiouser, Science
  18. Tropical Forests And The Changing Earth System, Phil. Tran. Biol.Sc.
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Inside A Terrorist's Mind, Sun-Sentinel.com
    2. War On Terror Meets War On Cancer, ScienceDaily
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Complexity Digest 2005.47 Next Issue TOP

  1. Voices Of Innovation - Stephen Wolfram: Simple Solutions, Business Week
    1. HHMI Awards $10 Million for Interdisciplinary Graduate Education, HHMI News
  2. Design for Living, Science
    1. Inspirations from Biological Optics for Advanced Photonic Systems, Science
  3. Wisdom Of The Crowd, Nature
  4. Making Sense Of Science - Peer Review Is The Missing Link For The Public, The Scientist
    1. Reviewing Peer Review, The Scientist
  5. Geneticists Claim Ageing Breakthrough But Immortality Will Have To Wait, The Guardian
    1. New Technique Multiplies Life Span In Simple Organisms, Innovations-report
  6. Profiles of Infection, The Scientist
    1. Epidemiology: Dimensions Of Superspreading, Nature
  7. The Ants Go Marching - On Your Screen - Google Earth Enables, The Scientist
    1. Ant Navigation: Priming Of Visual Route Memories, Nature
    2. Internet Species Tracking, The Scientist
  8. Tszzzzzt! Electric Fish May Jam Rivals' Signals, Science News
  9. Precision Extinction, The Scientist
    1. Invasive Species: Shoot To Kill, Nature
  10. Gene Turn-Off Makes Meek Mice Fearless, New Scientist
    1. The Food You Eat May Change Your Genes For Life, New Scientist
  11. Developmental Basis Of Evolution Meeting: Hummingbirds Keep Plant Speciation Humming Along, Science
    1. Developmental Basis Of Evolution Meeting: - Development Out of Sync, Science
    2. 'Perception' Gene Tracked Humanity's Evolution, ScienceDaily
  12. Performance-Based Pay Is Fair, Particularly When I Perform Better, Euro. J. Soc. Psycho.
  13. Nano-Optics: Gold Loses Its Lustre, Nature
    1. Butterfly Wings Work Like LEDs, BBC News
    2. Say Sayonara to Blurry Pics, Wired News
  14. Hyper-Entangled Photon Pairs, Physics News Update
    1. Groovy Science - Cassini Gets The Skinny On Saturn's Rings, Science News
  15. World Digital Library Planned, The Washington Post
    1. UN Predicts 'Internet Of Things', BBC News
    2. E-Mail Is So Five Minutes Ago, Business Week
  16. $100 Laptop For Poor Children Unveiled, vnunet.com
    1. UN Debut for $100 Laptop for Poor, BBC News
  17. Climate Change: The Long-Range Forecast, Nature
    1. Climate Proofing The Netherlands, Nature
  18. The Butterfly Cipher -- Let Chaos Keep Your Secrets Safe, New Scientist
    1. Hidden In Disorder: Chaos-Encrypted Information Goes The Distance, Science
    2. Communications Technology: Chaos Down The Line, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Collateral Damage: American Science And The War On Terrorism, Tech. & Soc. Mag., IEEE
    2. Tortured Reasoning, Washington Times
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Complexity Digest 2005.46 Next Issue TOP

  1. Biodiversity Science Evolves, Science
    1. Pattern-Oriented Modeling of Agent-Based Complex Systems: Lessons from Ecology, Science
  2. What Lurks in Its [Google's] Soul?, Washington Post
    1. Googling Your Genes, Washington Post
  3. Top-down Innovation at GE, Babson Insight
  4. Sense-And-Respond Grids For Adaptive Enterprises, IT Professional
    1. Driven to Create?, Science Now
  5. From Baddie to Daddy, Science Now
    1. Parents Carry Burden of Proof in School Cases, Court Rules, NY Times
    2. Y Did the Chromosome Cross the Road?, Science Now
  6. PET Imaging Reveals the Immune System at Work, HHMI News
  7. Neurobiology: Triggers For Channel Opening, Nature
    1. Circadian Rhythms: Clock Coordination, Nature
  8. Where Did Europeans Come From?, Science Now
  9. Water Builds The Heat In Europe, BBC News
  10. Why We Need a Generalized Darwinism, and Why Generalized Darwinism is Not Enough, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
    1. The Role of Redundancy in the Robustness of Random Boolean Networks, arXiv
    2. Evolution Of Host Resistance: Looking For Coevolutionary Hotspots At Small Spatial Scales, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  11. The Hasty Bee Gets More Nectar, Science
    1. Bees Solve Complex Colour Puzzles, ScienceDaily
  12. Fungi 'New Tool' Against Malaria, BBC
    1. Think Like A Parasite, Science Now
  13. Evolution: The Tree-Thinking Challenge, Science
    1. Evolution On Ice, Science Now
  14. Dodging Doomsday With A Space Tug, Science Now
    1. Gravitational Tractor For Towing Asteroids, Nature
  15. Science To Ride Gravitational Waves, BBC News
  16. Surprise Neutron Star Suggests Black Holes Are Hard To Make, Science
    1. Seeing Mountains In Starry Clouds Of Creation, NY Times
  17. Materials Science: Erasing Electron Mass, Nature
  18. Self-Organized Control of Irregular or Perturbed Network Traffic, arXiv
    1. About Calcutta Rickshaw, ComDig Reporting
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Analysis: Zarqawi's Expanding Terror Network, UPI/World Peace Herald
    2. Prisoners Of The Senate, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2005.45 Next Issue TOP

  1. An Evolutionist's Evolution, NY Times
    1. Evolutionary Theory: Personal Effects, Nature
  2. Evolution Is In The Air, NY Times
    1. To Fight the Flu, Change How Government Works, NY Times
  3. Chemical Biology: Bring Them Back Alive, Nature
  4. The Literary Darwinists, NY Times
    1. Researchers Look To Create A Synthesis Of Art And Science For The 21st Century, NY Times
  5. Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation, JASSS
  6. Clamp Down On Copycats, Nature
    1. Amazon Creates Artificial Artificial Intelligence, Seattle Post
  7. Pushing The Limit - Digital Communications Experts Are Zeroing In On The Perfect Code, Science News
  8. From Gunpowder To The Next Big Bang, NY Times
    1. In Calcutta, Rickshaw Drivers Approach The End Of The Road, Boston.com
  9. Neural Oscillations ... Still Make Waves, The Scientist
    1. Scientists Show How Thinking Can Harm Brain Cells, ScienceDaily
    2. How Brain Pathways Control Body Weight, Innovations-report
    3. Statins Aid Slow Learners, Nature news
  10. Money And Monkey Business, New Scientist
  11. Beyond Falsetto: Do Mice Sing At Ultrasonic Frequencies?, Science News
    1. When A Mouse Loves A Woman, Science Now
  12. New Turbine May Boost Wind Power, Associated Press
    1. Meteorology: Winds Of Change, Nature
  13. Nanoscale Hydrodynamics: Enhanced Flow In Carbon Nanotubes, Nature
  14. Active Control Of Slow Light On A Chip With Photonic Crystal Waveguides, Nature
  15. Complexity In Design, Computer
    1. Theoretical Mechanics: Crowd Synchrony On The Millennium Bridge, Nature
  16. Cosmology: The Infrared Dawn Of Starlight, Nature
    1. Intergalactic Attraction Creates Bumper Star Crop, New Scientist
  17. Out of Food? Try Eating Light, Science Now
  18. The Dawn Of Light, Science Now
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Justice Dept. Mulls Probe Into Cia Leak, The Associated Press
    2. The Truth About The Somali Pirate Attacks, Voices Magazin
    3. Al-Qaeda's Battle For Hearts And Minds, Asia Times Online
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Complexity Digest 2005.44 Next Issue TOP

  1. Because That's The Way It's Always Been Done, Optimize
  2. The Passive-Aggressive Organization, Harvard Business Review
  3. Creative-Class Struggle, Fastcompany.com
  4. The Road Ahead, Time
  5. The Future May Bring Simplicty (We Hope), European Business Forum
  6. Pushing Past Post-Its, Business
  7. Out-of-Equilibrium Economics and Agent-Based Modeling, SFI Working Papers
  8. An Empirical Behavioral Model of Price Formation, SFI Working Papers
  9. Chimps Indifferent To Needs Of Others
  10. Genomics: New Haplotype Map May Overhaul Gene Hunting, Science
    1. Geneticists Hail Variety Show, Nature News
    2. SNPs Ahoy! Scientists Complete Map Of Genetic Differences, Science News
  11. UC Santa Barbara Researchers Light Up 'Dark' Spins in Diamond, UC Santa Barbara News
  12. Future Nanotech Tools Made From Clay, CNET News.com
    1. Nanotech Pushes Out Medical, Energy Frontiers, Scientist Says, USInfo
  13. Robot Surgeons Scrub Up, Nature News
    1. Defend Yourself Against The Coming Robot Rebellion, Post-Gazette
  14. Atmospheric Science: Tipping Points in the Tundra, Science
  15. Virology: What Links Bats to Emerging Infectious Diseases?, Science
  16. Changes In Brain, Not Age, Determine One's Ability To Focus On Task, ScienceDaily
  17. In Western Bluebird As Well As Human Families, Accumulated Wealth Encourages Stability, ScienceDaily
  18. Complexity And Criticality, Imperial College Press
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. America Tightens Up Its Digital Security: Fortress US Gets Tighter, vnunet.com
    2. CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons, Washington Post
    3. Terror Television:Al-Qaida Launches A Weekly News Show, Asian Tribune
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Complexity Digest 2005.43 Next Issue TOP

  1. On Human Diversity, The Scientist
  2. Missing Links, Boston Globe
  3. Relating Musical Structure And Content To Aesthetic Response, J. Royal Musical Asso.
  4. Modular Interdependency in Complex Dynamical Systems, Artificial Life
    1. State Aggregation and Population Dynamics in Linear Systems, Artificial Life
  5. UCSD Study Shows 'Junk' DNA Has Evolutionary Importance, UCSD News
    1. Human Genome: Patchwork People, Nature
  6. Less Is More in Modeling Large Genetic Networks, Science
  7. Molecular Biology: DNA Twists And Flips, Nature
  8. Interlinked Fast and Slow Positive Feedback Loops Drive Reliable Cell Decisions, Science
  9. Korea Launches Network To Share Cloning Information, Nature
  10. Astrobiology: Life At The Cutting Edge, Nature
  11. Glycine-Rich Antifreeze Proteins from Snow Fleas, Science
    1. Evolution: Along Came A Sea Spider, Nature
  12. Avian Influenza: Are Wild Birds To Blame?, Science
    1. New Migration Route Could Lead to New Species of Bird, Science
  13. Cool Birds - How Can Emperor Penguins Live Like That?, Science News
  14. Trained Wasps May Be Used To Detect Bombs, Bugs, Bodies And More, Innovations-report
  15. Machines Are Catching Up To Human Intelligence, San Jose Mercury News
  16. Self-Organizing Hierarchies in Sensor and Communication Networks, Artificial Life
  17. Meteorology: Rise Of The Forecasting Machines, Science
  18. Geographic Control of Titan's Mid-Latitude Clouds, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Zarqawi's Terror Network Rivals Bin Laden's, US Intelligence Says, The Australian
    2. Hunter Asks For Probe Of Pentagon Actions Against Whistle-Blower, The Hill
    3. "Able Danger" & 9/11 Foreknowledge, The New American
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Complexity Digest 2005.42 Next Issue TOP

  1. Nobel Prize: Economics: Two Honored For The Theory And Practice Of Game Theory, Science
    1. Free Markets, Science, Technology And Conservation, Free Market News
    2. The Dynamics of Viral Marketing, arXiv
  2. Directing The Herd: Crowds And The Science Of Evacuation, Science
  3. Observing Others: Multiple Action Representation In The Frontal Lobe, Science
    1. Probing Question: Does Hypnosis Work?, Penn State Live
  4. Marine Snail's Neural Network Sheds Light On The Basis For Flexible Behavior, ScienceDaily
  5. Expert Witness Sees Evidence In Nature For Intelligent Design, NY Times
  6. New Curricula Aim To Make High School Labs Less Boring, Science
  7. Better Habits Sometimes Heritable, Science
  8. Genetics: Motivating Hotspots, Science
    1. Ecology: Roots Of Stability, Nature
  9. Shaking The Earliest Branches Of Anthropoid Primate Evolution, Science
  10. Paleoanthropology: New 'Hobbits' Bolster Species, But Origins Still a Mystery, Science
    1. Further Fossil Finds From Flores, Nature
  11. Death Feigning In The Face Of Sexual Cannibalism, Biol. Lett.
  12. Betting On Cilia, Science
  13. Cell Cycle Unleashed, Nature
  14. High Times For Brain Growth: Marijuana-Like Drug Multiplies Neurons, Science News
  15. Interrelated Causes Of Plant Invasion, Science
  16. Weather Forecasting With Ensemble Methods, Science
  17. Outsmarting Light, Innovations-report
    1. Device Physics: No-Nuisance Noise, Nature
  18. Why Time Keeps Going Forwards, New Scientist
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Recipe For Destruction, NY Times
    2. Better Never Than Late, Science
    3. Terrorists Exploit Internet, Comp. Fraud & Security
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Complexity Digest 2005.41 Next Issue TOP

  1. Why Only Three Dimensions?, Science Now
  2. A Quantum Recipe For Life, Nature
  3. Innovation Endgame, Nature
  4. The "Robust Yet Fragile" Nature of the Internet, PNAS
    1. iShopFloor : An Internet-Enabled Agent-Based Intelligent Shop Floor, Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE
    2. All Human Life Is Indexed On The Web - Search Engines Are Changing The Face Of Business Forever, The Business Online
  5. The Nature Of Personality: Genes, Culture, And National Character, Science
  6. End Of The Enlightenment, New Scientist
    1. Blind Faith In Science, New Scientist
  7. Inexpert Selection, NY Times
  8. Cancer Drugs May Help Nerves Regrow, Science Now
  9. Signaling: From Stem Cells To Dead Cells, Science
  10. Micro-Organisms May Be Turned Into Nano-Circuitry, New Scientist
  11. Rhythm Gene Discovered, Innovations-report
  12. Resurrected Influenza Virus Yields Secrets Of Deadly 1918 Pandemic, Science
    1. The 1918 Flu Virus Is Resurrected, Nature
  13. Microbiology: Conspirators In Blight, Nature
  14. Nonlinear Dynamics, Granular Media And Dynamic Earthquake Triggering, Nature
    1. Volcanoes: Shaken, But Not Stirred, Science Now
  15. Driverless Robots Reach Milestone In Darpa Race, CNET News.com
    1. Robot Vehicles Conquer U.S. Desert Terrain Race, Reuters
  16. With Laser 'Ears,' An Effort To Cut Air Traffic Delays, NY Times
  17. Media Should Campaign On The Basis Of Facts, Nature
  18. Theoretical Physicist Aims To Create Ideal Interdisciplinary Environment, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Belgium Is Trying To Unravel The Threads Of A Terror Web, NY Times
    2. N.Y. Threat May Have Been A Hoax, Washington Post
    3. New York Subway Threat Was A Hoax, Security Sources Admit, Guardian
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Complexity Digest 2005.40 Next Issue TOP

  1. Bankruptcy Filings Soar In Advance Of New Law, Washington Post
  2. Fuel Cells 'Need Political Push', BBC News
  3. Teacher Merit Pay Tied To Education Gains, NY Times
  4. Systems Biology: Deviations In Mating, Nature
  5. The Human Connectome: A Structural Description Of The Human Brain, PLoS Comput Biol
  6. Brain Disconnects During Sleep, Science Now
    1. Breakdown Of Cortical Effective Connectivity During Sleep, Science
    2. Widespread Cortical Networks Underlie Memory And Attention, Science
  7. Mutant Mice Reveal Secrets Of The Brain's Impressionable Youth, Science
  8. Autoimmune Overload May Damage HIV-Infected Brain, Innovations-report
    1. Evolutionary Implications Of The Adaptation To Different Immune Systems In A Parasite With A Complex Life Cycle, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  9. Mighty Mice Regrow Organs, Wired
  10. Thinking Big, Nature
  11. Wild Gorillas Pick Up Tools, Science Now
  12. Double Quantum Dot As A Quantum Bit, Science
  13. Diving Deep Into Quicksand, Science Now
  14. Robotics: Self-Replication From Random Parts, Nature
  15. Ten Questions about Emergence, arXiv
  16. The Time Is Now: Bust Up the Box!, NY Times
    1. Working Together, Wherever They Are, NY Times
    2. Professor Wants To Put Your Toaster On The Internet, ScienceDaily
  17. What Do TiVo and the Mac Mini Have in Common?, NY Times
  18. Officials Fear Chaos if Iraqis Vote Down the Constitution, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Physicians Ill-prepared To Diagnose, Treat Bioterrorism Diseases, ScienceDaily
    2. Nations Struggle To Infiltrate Al-Qaida, AP/WTOP News
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Complexity Digest 2005.39 Next Issue TOP

  1. Making Sense Of Evolution In An Uncertain World, Science
    1. Genes Tied To Recent Brain Evolution, Science News
    2. Researchers Predict Infinite Genomes, The Institute for Genomic Research news release
  2. Pushing The Time Barrier In The Quest For Language Roots, Science
  3. No Risk, No Fun? People Who Take Risks More Satisfied With Their Lives, ScienceDaily
    1. Segregation And School Disorder, Soc. Sc. J.
    2. Friends for Free: Self-Organizing Artificial Social Networks for Trust and Cooperation, arXiv
  4. Rita and Beyond: Research Model Advances Hurricane Intensity Prediction, ScienceDaily
    1. Hurricanes and Global Warming - A Link?, BBC News
    2. Hurricane Link To Climate Change Is Hazy, Nature
  5. Atmospheric Science: Inside Information, Nature
  6. Researchers Create Functioning Artificial Proteins Using Nature's Rules, UT Southwestern Medical Center Press Release
    1. Can Proteins Perform Logic?, Physics Web
  7. Breaking The Left-Right Axis: Do Nodal Parcels Pass A Signal To The Left?, BioEssays
  8. Molecule Walks Like a Human, UC Riverside Newsroom
    1. Jumping Nanodroplets, Science
  9. Balls Of Fire: Bees Carefully Cook Invaders To Death, Science News
    1. Ecology: 'Devil's Gardens' Bedevilled By Ants, Nature
  10. State-Dependent Learning And Suboptimal Choice: When Starlings Prefer Long Over Short Delays To Food, Animal Behav.
    1. Play Does Not Enhance Social Cohesion In A Cooperative Mammal, Animal Behav.
  11. Noise, Cost And Speed-Accuracy Trade-Offs: Decision-Making In A Decentralized System, Interface
  12. Structural Biology: Origins Of Chemical Biodefence, Nature
    1. New Gene Boosts Plant's Defenses Against Pests, Science
  13. Scientists Chase After Immortality in a Petri Dish
    1. Stem Cells: Another Route To Oocytes?, Science
  14. Don't Keep Your Distance, Nature
  15. Nsa Granted Net Location-Tracking Patent, CNET News.com
    1. Big Brother Is Hearing You, vnunet.com
    2. Radio Has Its Eye on Podcasters, BBC News
  16. Katrina Leaves Behind A Pile Of Scientific Questions, Science
    1. Louisiana Goes After Federal Billions, Washington Post
  17. Implant Program for Heart Device Was a Sales Spur, NY Times
  18. U.S. Rejects Saudi View Iraq Near Disintegration, Reuters
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Brain Imaging Ready To Detect Terrorists, Say Neuroscientists, Nature
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Complexity Digest 2005.38 Next Issue TOP

  1. Sustainable Systems As Organisms?, Biosystems
  2. Economic Growth And Global Warming: A Model Of Multiple Equilibria And Thresholds, J. Econ. Behav. & Org.
    1. Learning More Effectively From Experience, Ecol. & Soc.
    2. Warming World Blamed For More Strong Hurricanes, New Scientist
  3. Nanotechnology: Nano-Oscillators Get It Together, Nature
    1. Rice Researchers Gain New Insight Into Nanoscale Optics, EurekAlert
  4. Genomics: Massively Parallel Sequencing, Nature
    1. Computers Make Big Strides in Predicting Protein Structure, Howard Hughes Medical Institute news release
  5. Microbiology: Bacterial Speech Bubbles, Nature
  6. World Has Slim Chance To Stop Bird Flu Pandemic, Reuters
  7. Stem Cells Help More Mice Walk, Wired
  8. Deconstructing Memory In Drosophila, Current Biol.
    1. Insect Olfaction: A Map Of Smell In The Brain, Current Biol.
    2. Researchers Create DNA-Based Sensors For Nano-Tongues And Nano-Noses, Innovations-report
  9. A Sensory Source For Motor Variation, Nature
    1. Nintendo Plans One-Handed Joypad, BBC News
    2. Stepping Lightly: New View Of How Human Gaits Conserve Energy, Science News
  10. Earthquakes: Giant Returns In Time, Nature
  11. To Escape From Quantum Weirdness, Put the Pedal to the Metal, Science
  12. The World's 10 Biggest Ideas, New Scientist
    1. Big Ideas: Chaos, New Scientist
  13. Authors Hit Google With Copyright Lawsuit, AP/NYTimes
    1. Intelligence In The Internet Age, NYTimes
    2. The Ad Industry Turns to the Web to Predict Hits, NY Times
    3. It's A Whole New Web, Business Week
    4. Podcasting Profits, vnunet.com
  14. 'Magic Brush' Paints Visual World, BBC News
  15. By Hook or by Crook, Surviving Storm, Washington Post
  16. Mathematician Follows Networks., Nature
  17. An Honest Victory, NY Times
  18. Empire of the Sums, The Guardian
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Commission Presents Comprehensive Counter-Terrorism Packag, European Commission Press Release
    2. U.N. Warns Of 'Third Generation' Terrorists, Associated Press/ Corvallis Gazette-Times
    3. New Techniques Aim to Thwart Terrorists, Science
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Complexity Digest 2005.37 Next Issue TOP

  1. Brain May Still Be Evolving, Studies Hint, NY Times
    1. Are Human Brains Still Evolving? Brain Genes Show Signs Of Selection, Science
    2. Ongoing Adaptive Evolution Of Aspm, A Brain Size Determinant In Homo Sapiens, Science
  2. Feature: Consciousness, The Scientist
  3. Robo-Justice Do We Have The Technology To Build A Better Legal System?, Boston Globe
  4. Mind And Network, Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  5. Researchers Link Individual Preferences To Neuronal Activity In Brain, ScienceDaily
  6. Clever Artificial Hand Developed, BBC News
  7. Odd Behavior And Creativity May Go Hand-in-hand, ScienceDaily
    1. The 'Been There, Done That' Memory Response, ScienceDaily
    2. Is Happiness All In Your Head?, NPR
  8. Academic Admissions Standards: Implications For Output, Distribution, And Mobility, J. Euro. Econ. Asso.
    1. Understanding Changes In International Business Cycle Dynamics, J. Euro. Econ. Asso.
  9. Internet-Based Integrated Environmental Assessment: Using Ontologies To Share Computational Models, J. Industrial Ecol.
  10. Life Was No Mistake, Science Now
    1. Inching Onto Land, Science Now
  11. Biological Physics: Rare Returns On Lost Effort, Nature
    1. Bio Programming, Technology Review
  12. Dynamical Phenomena: Walking And Orbiting Droplets, Nature
  13. Complex Networks And Simple Models In Biology, Interface
    1. Six Degrees, The Engineer Online
  14. The Keys To Stemness, Science Now
    1. Stem Cells Show Signs Of Age, Science Now
  15. Polymer Breakthrough To Boost Smart Drugs, New Scientist
    1. Purdue Scientists Treat Cancer With Rna Nanotechnology, Purdue Univ News
  16. New Backpack Powers Up, Science Now
    1. Harvesting Energy By Improving The Economy Of Human Walking, Science
    2. Generating Electricity While Walking with Loads, Science
  17. Ring Riddles Baffle Saturn Scientists - Structures Are More Complex And Fickle Than Thought, Science Now
    1. Astronomers Detect Most Distant Cosmic Explosion, Reuters
    2. Coming Into Focus: A Universe Shaped By Violent Galaxies, Science
  18. After The Flood, Nature
    1. Riding Out The Storm, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Our Suicide Pact With Al Qaeda, LATimes
    2. Terror Cells In For The Long Haul, The Australian
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Complexity Digest 2005.36 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Future Of Hurricane Science And Prediction, NPR TOTN
    1. Responding To Uncertainty, Nature
  2. Chimps To People: Apes Show Contrasts In Genetic Makeup, Science News
    1. The Chimpanzee And Us, Nature
    2. The Second Inheritance System Of Chimpanzees And Humans, Nature
    3. Beyond The Chimpanzee Genome: The Threat Of Extinction, Science
  3. Neocortex Evolution In Primates: The 'Social Brain' Is For Females, Biol. Lett.
    1. Coevolution Of Vocal Communication And Sociality In Primates, Biol. Lett.
  4. Larval And Adult Brains, Evolution & Dev.
    1. Flower Choice Copying In Bumblebees, Biol. Lett.
    2. Ant Colony Optimization Theory: A Survey, Theoretical Computer Science
    3. Parasites Brainwash Grasshoppers Into Death Dive, New Scientist
  5. Palaeontology: Between Water And Land, Nature
  6. Molecular Insights Into Human Brain Evolution, Nature
    1. Neuroscience: Finding The Missing Fundamental, Nature
  7. 'Miracle Mouse' Can Grow Back Lost Limbs, The Sunday Times - Britain
  8. Embryonic Stem Cells Found to Acquire Mutations, The Washington Post
  9. Computer Analysis Provides Incan String Theory, New Scientist
  10. Declining Importance Of Books: Get Over It, IT Professional
  11. Website Gives Email Senders A Reputation, CNET News.com
    1. The Growth Dynamics of the Internet and the Long Wave Theory, Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  12. Complexity Estimation Of The H.264 Coded Video Bitstreams, Computer J.
  13. Fog Be Gone: Nanocoating Clarifies The View, Science News
  14. The Quest For Dark Energy: High Road Or Low?, Science
    1. Dark Matter Highlights Extra Dimensions, Nature
  15. In The Forests Of RNA Dark Matter, Science
    1. From Birth to Death: The Complex Lives of Eukaryotic mRNAs, Science
  16. Do Talk To Strangers: Encouraging Performative Ties To Create Competitive Advantage, Knowledge@Wharton
  17. Offshoring: Individual Short-Term Gain Versus Collective Long-Term Loss?, IT Professional
  18. Intl J Emergence: Complexity And Organization, Current Content, emergence.org
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. The French Counter-Terrorism Model, FrontPageMagazine.com
    2. After London: Reassessing Africa's Role In The War On Terror, AEI Online
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Complexity Digest 2005.35 Next Issue TOP

  1. Einstein's Sphere Of Influence, The New Mexican
  2. Nanorobotics Control Design: A Collective Behavior Approach For Medicine, NanoBioscience, IEEE
    1. Directed Discovery of Novel Drug Cocktails, SFI Working Papers
    2. Scar Prevention: The Healing Touch, Nature
  3. Now You See It, Now You Don't: 'Change Blindness' Isn't Magic, ScienceDaily
    1. Science Plumbs Placebo Effect, Christian Science Monitor
    2. Neuroscience: Finding The Missing Fundamental, Nature
  4. Left Behind, Way Behind, NY Times
  5. Prehistoric Sturdy Shoe Fad Discovered, Discovery News
  6. Coffee Top Antioxidant Source For Americans, Reuters
  7. A School-Oriented, Age-Structured Epidemic Model, SIAM J. Appl. Math.
    1. Substance Use: Individual Behavior, Social Interaction, Markets And Politics, JAI Press
  8. More Animals Join The Learning Circle, NewScientist.com news service
    1. Primate Communication Linked To Social Bonding, NewScientist.com news service
    2. Chimps Show Sign of Culture, News@Nature
    3. Copycat Chimps Are Cultural Conformists, New Scientist
  9. Water And Life: Seeking The Solution, Nature
    1. Global Patterns of Predator Diversity in the Open Oceans, Science
  10. Exploring Microbial Diversity--A Vast Below, Science
    1. Evolution: A Treasure Trove Of Motors, Nature
    2. The Contribution Of Species Richness And Composition To Bacterial Services, Nature
  11. Nanoglue Stickier Than Gecko Toes, Wired News
  12. On The Internet, Nobody Knows You're A Bot, Wired News
  13. Intel Says Forget Megahertz And Gigahertz, Forbes.com
    1. Key Computer Breakthrough, IST News
  14. A Generative Model for Feedback Networks, SFI Working Papers
    1. The Evolution Of Network Topology By Selective Removal, Interface
  15. Coarse-Graining of Cellular Automata, Emergence, and the Predictability of Complex Systems, arXiv
    1. "Colony" Computer To Look For A Theory Of Theories, UC Davis News
  16. Bicycle Dynamics And Control: Adapted Bicycles For Education And Research, Control Systems Magazine
    1. Robotic Spy-Planes Use Shape-Shifting Wings, New Scientist
  17. Earth's Core Spins Faster Than the Rest of the Planet, NY Times
  18. Iraq Charter A 'Recipe For Chaos', BBC News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Al-Qaeda Trying To Set Up Network In Southern Africa, People's Daily Online, China
    2. 40,000 Jihadis Threaten Europe: Claim, United Press International
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Complexity Digest 2005.34 Next Issue TOP

  1. Complex Systems: Order Out Of Chaos, Nature
    1. Complexity of Networks, arXiv
    2. The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems, arXiv
  2. Cosmology: Original Questions, Nature
  3. Daisy Has All The Digital Answers To Life On Earth, The Guardian
    1. The Illusion Of Invariant Quantities In Life Histories, Science
    2. Is Invariance Across Animal Species Just an Illusion?, Science
  4. Building A Virtual Microbe, Gene By Gene By Gene, NY Times
    1. Researchers Creating Life From Scratch, MSNBC/AP
  5. Biological Clocks Coordinately Keep Life On Time, Science
  6. Startup Sees Promise In Virus, Wired
  7. Bitty Beasts Of Burden: Algae Can Carry Cargo, Science News
  8. Biodiversity: Turning Up The Heat On Hotspots, Nature
  9. Against The Current: An Inter-Oceanic Whale Migration Event, Biol. Lett.
    1. Whale Wanders Off The Beaten Path, Nature
  10. Plants Discriminate Between Self And Non Self, ScienceDaily
  11. Causes Of Exotic Bird Establishment Across Oceanic Islands, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  12. Learning Only When Necessary: Better Memories Of Correlated Patterns In Networks, Neural Computation
    1. Probing Question: Why Do We Forget?, Research/Penn State
    2. Extensive Piano Practicing Has Regionally Specific Effects On White Matter Development, Nature Neuroscience
    3. White Matter Matters In Reading Performance, ScienceDaily
  13. Supercomputer's Key To The Brain, BBC News
  14. Potent Medicine - Can Viagra And Other Lifestyle Drugs Save Lives?, Science News
  15. Free Wi-Fi? Get Ready For Googlenet., Business 2.0
  16. Playing Violent Video Games Can Heighten Aggression, Medical News Today
    1. Kids Get Aggressive After Video Games, Psychological Association Calls For Less Violence In Games, Nature News
  17. Index Aims For Fair Ranking Of Scientists - 'H-Index' Sums Up Publication Record., Nature
    1. Ratings Games, Nature
  18. Fine Fabric: New, Fast Way To Make Sheets Of Nanotubes, Science News
    1. The New Strategic Triangle: U.S. And European Reactions To China's Rise, The Washington Quarterly
    2. The Role Of Culture In Risk Regulations: A Comparative Case Study, Env. Sc. & Policy
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Deterring Terrorists: Thoughts On A Framework, The Washington Quarterly
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Complexity Digest 2005.33 Next Issue TOP

  1. Harvard Jumps Into Evolution Research With Net Initiative, Boston Globe
  2. Scientists Attack Bush Over Intelligent Design, Nature
  3. Correlation Analysis of Coupled Fitness Landscapes, Complexity
    1. Four Correlates Of Complex Behavioral Networks: Carving Networks At Their Joints, Complexity
  4. The Secret Life Of Sperm, Nature
  5. Scientists Make Nerve Stem Cells, BBC News
  6. Cosmic Computing, Science News
    1. Strange Orbits, Science News
  7. Cosmology: Anthropic Reasoning, Science
  8. Archaeology: Unraveling Khipu's Secrets, Science
    1. Khipu Accounting in Ancient Peru, Science
  9. Toward Inherently Secure And Resilient Societies, Science
  10. The Commons' Tragicomedy: Self-Governance Doesn't Come Easily, Complexity
  11. Emergence of Cooperation: State of the Art, Artificial Life
  12. The Social Nature Of Primate Cognition, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  13. How The Brain Understands Pictures, ScienceDaily
  14. The Effect Of Disease Life History On The Evolutionary Emergence Of Novel Pathogens, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    1. Medics Braced For Fresh Superbug, Nature
  15. Cancer - Two In One, Nature
  16. Neurons And Navigation, Nature
  17. The Right Time And Place For Making Flowers, Science
  18. Y-Shaped Nanotubes Are Ready-Made Transistors, New Scientist
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Lecture Eyes Social Simulation Of Pashtun Tribal Dynamics, Los Alamos Monitor
    2. The Terrorist And The Grid, NY Times
    3. Caught Up In Our Own Connections, NY Times
    4. No Evidence Pentagon Knew Of Atta, Panel Says, Washington Post
    5. New Facts Back Tale Of Brush With Atta, The Weekend Australian
    6. Anti-Terror Study Tracks Gas Dispersal, Nature
    7. The Quality Of Terror, Ameri. J. Polit. Sc.
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Complexity Digest 2005.32 Next Issue TOP

  1. Bubble Physics, Boston Globe
    1. Prices Fuel A Rebellion, Washington Post
  2. Hurricane Caused 'Tallest Wave', BBC News
    1. Extreme Waves Under Hurricane Ivan, Science
  3. Easy Striders - New Humanoids With Efficient Gaits Change The Robotics Landscape, Science News
  4. Let's Have No More Monkey Trials, Time
    1. Intelligent Design Pushed By Anti-Science Extremists, Morning Sun
    2. Cool Is Not Enough, Nature
  5. The Coming Paradigm Shift In Forensic Identification Science, Science
  6. Suppressing Cancer: The Importance Of Being Senescent, Science
    1. Preventing Alzheimer's: A Lifelong Commitment?, Science
  7. Remote-Controlled Humans, Forbes
    1. 'Thoughts Read' Via Brain Scans, BBC News
  8. Brain Workouts May Tone Memory, Wired
    1. Fatigue As A Window To The Brain, MIT Press
  9. A Possible Unifying Principle For Mechanosensation, Nature
  10. Neurobiology: Getting Axons Going, Nature
  11. Dramatizing Maths: What's The Plot?, Nature
  12. Quantum Information: Putting Certainty In The Bank, Nature
    1. Now, If My Software Only Had A Brain ..., NY Times
  13. Social Learning Of Floral Odours Inside The Honeybee Hive, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    1. Prey Attack And Predators Defend: Counterattacking Prey Trigger Parental Care In Predators, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    2. Complex Interactions Among Mammalian Carnivores In Australia, And Their Implications For Wildlife Management, Biol. Rev.
  14. How Butterflies Fly Thousands Of Miles Without Getting Lost, ScienceDaily
  15. Prediction and Predictability of Global Epidemics: The Role of the Airline Transportation Network, arXiv
  16. Automatic Filters for the Detection of Coherent Structure in Spatiotemporal Systems, arXiv
  17. Food Webs: Experts Consuming Families of Experts, arXiv
  18. Selfish vs. Unselfish Optimization of Network Creation, arXiv
    1. Why Exactly Is Commitment Important For Rationality?, Econ. & Phil.
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Is It Treason? The 7/7 Fallout Continues.
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Complexity Digest 2005.31 Next Issue TOP

  1. We Are The Web, Wired
    1. The Order Of Technology: Complexity And Control In A Connected World, Info. & Org.
    2. Calling All Luddites, NY Times
    3. Playing The Future: David Gosen, BBC News
  2. Don't Worry About China. Learn From It., NY Times
    1. The World's Greatest Investors: Bill Miller, Matthew HeimerSmartMoney.com
    2. Ethical Leadership: A Social Learning Perspective For Construct Development And Testing, Org. Behav. & Human Decision Proc.
    3. Economic Growth Or Environmental Protection? The False Dilemma Of The Latin-American Countries, Env. Sc. & Policy
  3. Why Bill Gates Wants 3,000 New Patents, NY Times
    1. Bug Hunters Get Big Cash Rewards, IST News
    2. Gloomy Picture On EU-US Innovation Comparison, IST News
  4. Pushing Drugs, How Medical Marketing Influences Doctors And Patients, Science News
  5. Vertical And Horizontal Transmission In Language Evolution, Tran. Phil. Society
  6. Eu Commission Welcomes Six-Nation Climate Pact, Reuters AlertNet
    1. Climate Change: El Ni?o Or La Ni?a? The Past Hints At The Future, Science
    2. Ice Lake Found On The Red Planet, BBC News
    3. Forest Conservation: Learning To Adapt, Science
  7. Glints From Inner Space: Sensing Earth's Hidden Radioactivity, Science News
    1. Earth Sciences: Ghosts From Within, Nature
    2. Life's Ingredients Found In Early Universe, New Scientist
  8. Cancer Cells Signal Before They Migrate, Science Now
  9. Stem Cells Bring Home The Bacon, Science Now
    1. When Good Clones Go Bad, Science Now
    2. Bone, Grow Thyself, Science Now
    3. New Method Shows It Is Possible To Grow Bone For Grafts Within A Patient's Body, ScienceDaily
  10. Lymphatic System: Unlocking The Drains, Nature
  11. Physics: Logical Spectroscopy, Science
  12. Learning, Memory And The Brain, NPR TOTN
    1. Robust Habit Learning In The Absence Of Awareness And Independent Of The Medial Temporal Lobe, Nature
  13. Clinging To Our Fears, Science Now
    1. Psychology: Conditioned Fear Of A Face: A Prelude To Ethnic Enmity?, Science
  14. Cognitive Neuroscience: Decision Amid Uncertainty, Nature
    1. Neuroscience: Genomics Reaches The Synapse, Nature
    2. Watch My Hands Deceive You, BBC News
  15. Tiny Fossils Tell Tall Tale, Science Now
    1. A New Hybrid, Animal Style, Science Now
  16. Evolution: Rogue Fruit Fly Dna Offers Protection From Insecticides, Science
    1. Grubs Fight Parasites With Food, BBC News
  17. Animal Behavior: Strong Personalities Can Pose Problems In The Mating Game, Science
    1. Worthless Gifts Get The Chicks, Science Now
    2. Courting Bird Sings With Stridulating Wing Feathers, Science
  18. Outsmarted By Ants, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Trading Cricket For Jihad, NY Times
    2. Research Team Isolates Receptor For Deadly Viruses; Discovery Could Be Key To Bioterrorism Defense, ScienceDaily
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Complexity Digest 2005.30 Next Issue TOP

  1. Millennium Assessment Of Human Behavior, Science
    1. Global Consequences Of Land Use, Science
    2. Global Analyses Reveal Mammals Facing Risk Of Extinction, Science
    3. Global Mammal Conservation: What Must We Manage?, Science
    4. On The Regulation Of Populations Of Mammals, Birds, Fish, And Insects, Science
  2. Population Dynamics: Growing To Extremes, Science
    1. Harvard Researchers Discuss Systems Biology, Bio-IT World
  3. Good Connections Are Everything, ScienceDaily
  4. Stagnation Of R&D Intensity A Major Threat To The European Knowledge-Based Economy, IST News
    1. Asia Squeezes Europe's Lead In Science, Nature
    2. Research, Policy And Practice: Why Developing Countries Are Different, J. Int. Dev.
  5. UN Outlines Future Of US-Less Internet, IST News
    1. UN At Odds Over Internet's Future, BBC News
  6. Mapping The Large-Scale Structure Of The Universe, Science
    1. One-Atom-Thick Materials Promise A 'New Industrial Revolution', U Manchester News Release
    2. All Traffic, All The Time And Just A Click Away, NY Times
  7. Oil On Troubled Waters May Stop Hurricanes, New Scientist
  8. The Perils Of Kids On Speed, New Scientist
    1. Cocaine Use Prevents Adaptive Behaviour, New Scientist
    2. Midbrain Dopamine Neurons Encode A Quantitative Reward Prediction Error Signal, Neuron
  9. Similar Is Different In Hippocampal Networks, Science
    1. Reflections Of Primate Minds: Mirror Images Strike Monkeys As Special, Science News
    2. Deep Brain Stimulation For Phantom Limb Pain, J. Clinical Neurosc.
    3. Mind May Affect Machines, Wired
  10. Butterfly Unlocks Evolution Secret, BBC News
    1. Killer Caterpillar Stalks Snails, BBC News
    2. Attack of the Caterpillars, Science Now
  11. Honeybee Swarms: How Do Scouts Guide A Swarm Of Uninformed Bees?, Animal Behav.
    1. A Model For Seasonal Phytoplankton Blooms, J. Theor. Biol.
    2. Multicellular Organization In Bacteria As A Target For Drug Therapy, Ecol. Lett.
  12. Complex Worlds From Simpler Nervous Systems, MIT Press
    1. Battle Of The Bugs, Science Now
  13. Has Huygens Found Life On Titan?, New Scientist Space.com
    1. Toxic Surfs, Science News
  14. Climate Change Causing Phase Transitions Of Walleye Pollock Recruitment Dynamics, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  15. Robotics Show Lucy Walked Upright, BBC News
    1. Bike Science, NPR Science Friday
  16. Bill Wouldn't Wean U.S. Off Oil Imports, Analysts Say, Washington Post
  17. Georgia's Undemocratic Voter Law, NY Times
  18. The Best Army We Can Buy, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networ
    1. Psychologists Warn Of More Suicide Attacks In The Wake Of London Bombs, Nature
    2. Insurgents 'Joining Iraqi Police', BBC News
    3. EMERGENT COMMUNITIES DEDICATED TO WAR (London, Iraq, and Al Qaeda), Global Guerrillas
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Complexity Digest 2005.29 Next Issue TOP

  1. Universe 'Too Queer' To Grasp, BBC News
    1. Big Thinkers Show The Way Forward, BBC News
  2. New Project Seeks To Simplify Complexity, IST News
    1. Complexity Theory for Simpletons, arXiv
  3. Measuring The Contribution Of Infoplazas To Internet Penetration And Use In Panama, Info. Tech. & Int. Dev.
    1. Electronic Government And The Rural Poor: The Case Of Gyandoot, Info. Tech. & Int. Dev.
  4. Gravity Doughnut Promises Time Machine, Nature News
    1. Dr. Feynman's Doodles - How One Scientist's Simple Sketches Transformed Physics, Science News
  5. Humans' Rational And Irrational Buying Behavior Is Mirrored In Monkeys, ScienceDaily
    1. Industry Lured By The Gains Of Going Green, Nature
  6. Simple Stochastic Birth and Death Models of Genome Evolution: Was There Enough Time for Us to Evolve?, arXiv
    1. Simulated Society May Generate Virtual Culture, New Scientist
  7. Why Computers Are Like The Weather, New Scientist
    1. Cellular Wave Computers For Brain-Like Spatial-Temporal Sensory Computing, Circuits and Systems Mag.
  8. Geophysics: Threshold Crossed On The Way To A Geodynamo In A Computer, Science
  9. As Beltway Work Begins, Traffic Jam Predictions Turn Out To Be Mirage, Washington Post
  10. Synapses May Fire Neurotransmitters Like A Shotgun
  11. Shared Cortical Anatomy For Motor Awareness And Motor Control, Science
    1. With Some Help, Woods Refashions Greatness, NY Times
  12. Stem Cells May Protect Brain, Nervous System -Study, Reuters
    1. Neuroscience: Brain Under Surveillance: The Microglia Patrol, Science
  13. Nonlinear Optics: To Physicists' Surprise, A Light Touch Sets Tiny Objects Aquiver, Science
  14. Science Vs. Ethics In Creating Intelligent Primates, NPR D2D
    1. Mice Gang Up On Endangered Birds, Nature News
    2. New Hope For Locust Pest Control, BBC News
  15. Common Mechanisms Of Nerve And Blood Vessel Wiring, Nature
    1. Developmental Biology: Tiny Brakes For A Growing Heart, Nature
    2. Cancer Biology: Sleeping Beauty Awakens, Nature
  16. Evolutionary Biology: Relativity For Molecular Clocks, Nature
    1. Caveman DNA Hints At Map Of Migration, Nature
  17. Let A Thousand Licensed Poppies Bloom, NY Times
  18. Karl Rove's America, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. September 11 And The Adaptation Failure Of U.S. Intelligence Agencies, International Security
    2. Guantanamo `Dog Tricks' Defended As Valid Interrogation Tactic, Bloomberg
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Complexity Digest 2005.28 Next Issue TOP

  1. A Livable Shade Of Green, NY Times
    1. Profit, Not Jobs, In Silicon Valley, NY Times
    2. In Seeking Unocal, Chevron Ruffles An Asian Partner, NY Times
  2. Africa Tackles Graft, With Billions In Aid In Play, NY Times
    1. What Do Firms Disclose And Why? Enforcing Corporate Governance And Transparency In Central And Eastern Europe, Oxford Rev. Econ. Policy
    2. A Theory Of Corporate Scandals: Why The USA And Europe Differ, Oxford Rev. Econ. Policy
  3. New Type Of Research Journal Gaining Ground, Boston Globe
  4. The Mental Universe, Nature
    1. Dynamic Predictive Coding By The Retina, Nature
    2. The Dream Of A Lifetime, Technology Review
  5. U.S. Seeks To Keep Role On Internet, NY Times
    1. The Next Wave In Computing Is Embedded, IST News
    2. U.S. Dominance In Science And Engineering Slipping, AOL News
  6. Complexity In Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems, Science
    1. Nonlinear Dynamics: When Instability Makes Sense, Nature
  7. Night Of The Crusher, The Waking Nightmare Of Sleep Paralysis Propels People Into A Spirit World, Science
    1. Neuroscience: Deep In Thought, Nature
    2. Dealing With ADHD As An Adult, NPR TOTN
  8. Big Questions In Science, NPR TOTN
    1. Teaching Qubits New Tricks, Science
  9. Probing Question: Does My Dog Really Love Me?, Research Penn State
  10. How Earth-Scale Engineering Can Save The Planet, Popular Mechanics
    1. Trees, Vines And Nets -- Microbial Evolution Changes Its Face, ScienceDaily
    2. 'Fires Wiped Out' Ancient Mammals, BBC
    3. Conservation Biology: Is This Any Way To Save A Species?, Nature
    4. Where Slugs May Safely Graze, Nature
  11. Same Difference: Twins' Gene Regulation Isn't Identical, Science News
    1. Are Humans Still Evolving?, Science
  12. A Self-Organized Vortex Array Of Hydrodynamically Entrained Sperm Cells, Science
  13. Birdbrains Could Teach Basal Ganglia Research A New Song, Trends in Neurosc.
  14. Genetic Link Confirmed Between Polynesians And Indigenous Taiwanese, ScienceDaily
    1. Mental Concerts: Musical Imagery And Auditory Cortex, Neuron
    2. Music: The International Language?, New Scientist
    3. Modelling the Dynamics of Youth Subcultures, JASSS
    4. Appearances Can Be Deceiving: Lessons Learned Re-Implementing Axelrod's 'Evolutionary Approach to Norms', JASSS
  15. Secret Worlds: The Universe Within, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
  16. Surf's Up, Down At The Swimming Pool, New Scientist
  17. Nanotubes Inspire New Technique For Healing Broken Bones, EurekAlert
  18. SFI Names New Leaders, Los Alamos Monitor
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. The Surprise We Expected, NY Times
    2. Our Ally, Our Problem, NY Times
    3. Pentagon Weighs Strategy Change To Deter Terror, NY Times
    4. Washington's Deadly Bridge, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2005.27 Next Issue TOP

  1. Entering A Dark Age Of Innovation, New Scientist
    1. Is It Human Or Computer? Defending E-Commerce With Captchas, IT Professional
    2. Norwegian Government Moves To Phase Out Proprietary Formats, IST News
  2. Technology To Grow Beyond Human Control?, IST News
    1. Hewlett Cites Progress On Quantum Computer, NY Times
  3. Net Pioneer Wants New Internet, Wired News
  4. Energy: China's Burning Ambition, Nature
    1. Ascent Of Nanoscience In China, Science
    2. Changes And Continuities. Evolution Of A Chinese Family Business, Asia Europe J.
  5. East Dance - West Dance, Asia Europe J.
    1. Dancing Einstein, Science
  6. Quantum Physics In Neuroscience And Psychology: A Neurophysical Model Of Mind-Brain Interaction, Phil. Tran.: Biol. Sc.
    1. Bigger Is Not Always Better: When Brains Get Smaller, Biol. Lett.
    2. New Cornell Study Suggests That Mental Processing Is Continuous, Not Like A Computer, Cornell News Release
  7. Educational Research: Big Plans For Little Brains, Nature
  8. Study Shows How Sleep Improves Memory, ScienceDaily
    1. Sleepless In Seaworld: Some Newborns And Moms Forgo Slumber, Science News
    2. Animal Behaviour: Continuous Activity In Cetaceans After Birth, Nature
  9. Concept: Now You See It, Now You Don't, Nature
    1. Biophysics: Fashionable Cells, Nature
  10. Killer Cells Get A Boost, Science Now
    1. Cancer Biology: Summing Up Cancer Stem Cells, Nature
  11. Gene Regulation: Expression And Silencing Coupled, Nature
  12. Evolutionary Biology: Males From Mars, Nature
  13. Experimental Demonstration Of Chaos In A Microbial Food Web, Nature
    1. Food Web Ecology: Playing Jenga And Beyond, Science
  14. Primeval Life Reflected In Present-Day Pools, New Scientist
    1. Flying On The Edge: Bluebirds Make Use Of Habitat Corridors, Science
  15. Mother Knows Worst: Abusive Parenting Spans Generations In Monkeys, Science News
  16. Fluid Dynamics: Impact On Everest, Nature
  17. Atlantic Climate Pacemaker For Millennia Past, Decades Hence?, Science
  18. Did The Big Bang Really Happen?, New Scientist
    1. Saturn Rings Have Own Atmosphere, BBC News
    2. Clear Skies Raise Global-Warming Estimates, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. 'We're Not All Terrorists,' Say Islamic Charities, AlertNet
    2. The Zarqawi Phenomenon, Mother Jones
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Complexity Digest 2005.26 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Geometry Of Crashes - A Measure Of The Dynamics Of Stock Market Crises, arXiv
    1. Approximate Versus Exact Equilibria In Dynamic Economies, Econometrica
    2. Measuring Emergence in the Dynamics of New Venture Creation, Journal of Business Venturing
    3. Uncertainty And Learning In Pharmaceutical Demand, Econometrica
  2. Remembrance Of Things Future: The Mystery Of Time, NY Times
  3. Voting Technology: Election Auditing Is An End-To-End Procedure, Science
    1. Social Networks And Internet Connectivity Effects, Info. Communication & Society
    2. Organized Crime Or Individual Crime? Endogenous Size Of A Criminal Organization, Economic Inquiry
  4. Not-So-Deep Impact, Nature
  5. Neuroscience: Friends And Grandmothers, Nature
    1. Consciousness: Crick And The Claustrum, Nature
    2. What Other People Say May Change What You See, NY Times
    3. Neuroscience: An Intrusive Chaperone, Nature
  6. Roadmap To Unravelling Autism Revealed, NewScientist.com news service
    1. Autistic Brains Out Of Synch?, Science
    2. Unconventional Brain Circuits Offer Clues To Insomnia-obesity Connection, ScienceDaily
  7. Quantum Computer Springs A Leak, New Scientist
    1. Bacterial 'IQ', BMC Microbiology 2005
    2. Biocomputation, edge.org
    3. Next Dream for Venter: Create Entire Set of Genes From Scratch, The Wall Street Journal
  8. Computers Get The Meaning, InformationWeek
  9. Studying Invasion: Have We Missed The Boat?, Ecology Letters
    1. How Landscape Dynamics Affect Extinction Risk For Migratory Songbirds, ScienceDaily
  10. Hydrodynamics and Phases of Flocks, Annals of Physics
  11. The Origin of Life on Earth: A New General Dynamic Theory, Advances in Space Research
    1. Microbe May Push Photosynthesis Into Deep Water, Science
  12. War Of The Fire Ants, Nature News
    1. Allometry Of Alarm Calls: Black-Capped Chickadees Encode Information About Predator Size, Science
    2. Bird Alarm Calls Size Up Predators, Science
    3. Electric Organ Discharge Patterns During Group Hunting By A Mormyrid Fish, Porc. Biol. Sc.
  13. Evolutionary Biology: Island Of The Clones, Nature
  14. Trouble Brews Over Contested Trend In Hurricanes, Nature
    1. How Does The Antarctic Ice Sheet Affect Sea Level Rise?, Science
    2. Explaining The Motion Of Lotion In The Ocean, Science
  15. Cleaning The Air And Improving Health With Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles, Science
    1. Energy On Ice, Science News
  16. Ultracold Atoms Turn A Cool Trick, Science Now
    1. Tiny Whirlpools Prove Atoms Flow Freely, Science
    2. Researchers Create First Nanofluidic Transistor, The Basis Of Future Chemical Processors, Media Relations
  17. Granular Matter: A Tale Of Tails, Nature
  18. Dynamic Universe, Nature
    1. Hidden Worlds May Lurk In Stellar Dust, Science Now
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Terror Trial Winding Down In Spain, Science Daily
    2. Terror And Civil Rights, Toronto Star
    3. Italy Angry Over U.S. Tactics Used In Spy Investigation, The Argus/NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2005.25 Next Issue TOP

  1. God is in the Details, The American Enterprise Online
    1. 'A Different Universe': You Are More Important Than a Quark, NY Times
  2. The Uncertain Future for Central Dogma, The Scientist
    1. Leadership and Uncertainty: Complexity and the Lessons of History, Futures
  3. Knowledge and Complexity, Futures
    1. Types and Forms of Emergence, arXiv
  4. Scientific Knowledge as a Public Good, The Scientist
  5. Plan to Connect Rural India to the Internet, NY Times
    1. Using Your Cellphone Anywhere in the World, NY Times
  6. Social Structure And Support Networks In Beijing And Hong Kong, Social Networks
    1. How To Search A Social Network, Social Networks
  7. Making Molecules Work, Soft Machines
    1. New Magnetic Herding Technique Proposed To Manipulate The Very Small, Eurekalert
  8. Engineering: Skimming The Surface, Nature
    1. The Breakdown Of Continuum Models For Mechanical Contacts, Nature
    2. Glassmaking in Bronze-Age Egypt, Science
  9. Quantum Interference Device Made by DNA Templating of Superconducting Nanowires, Science
    1. New Model 'Permits Time Travel', BBC News
    2. Discovering The True Nature Of Reality, New Scientist
  10. The Triple Alliance: How A Plant-Ant, Living In An Ant-Plant, Acquires The Third Partner, A Scale Insect, Insectes Sociaux
    1. Effect Of Group Size On The Aggression Strategy Of An Extirpating Stingless Bee, Insectes Sociaux
    2. Why Are Small Males Aggressive?, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  11. Seeds of Diversity, Science
    1. Jumping DNA Mixes It Up in the Developing Brain, Science
  12. Walk Like A Molecular Motor, The Scientist
    1. Robo-Legs, NY Times
    2. 'Robot Suit' Enhances Human Power, IST News
  13. Shrinking Brains But Healthy Memory -- Does Brain Matter Matter?, ScienceDaily
    1. Gastric Bug Link To Irregular Heart Rhythm, ScienceDaily
  14. Developmental Biology: One Source For Muscle, Nature
  15. Uncertainty in Hurricanes and Global Warming, Science
    1. Global Warming Will Bring Fiercer Hurricanes, New Scientist
  16. Big Bang Made Waves In The Sea Of Neutrinos, New Scientist
    1. Extrasolar Planets Get Smaller and (Possibly) Harder, Science
  17. The Story of O2, Science
    1. A Better Atmosphere for Life, Science
    2. Dilution of the Northern North Atlantic Ocean in Recent Decades, Science
  18. Iraqi Rebels Refine Bomb Skills, Pushing Toll of G.I.'s Higher, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Abu Ghraib, Rewarded, NY Times
    2. Guant?namo's Long Shadow, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2005.24 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Power Of Us - Mass collaboration on the Internet is shaking up business, Business Week online
    1. Robots putting their heads together, Philadelphia Business Journal
  2. The Hyper-Cortex of Human Collective-Intelligence Systems, arXiv
    1. The Ethics of Creating Consciousness, Boston NPR News source
  3. Science Education: Hothouse High, Nature
  4. Appearance DOES Matter, Science
    1. Inferences of Competence from Faces Predict Election Outcomes, Science
  5. China Weighs Modest Currency Change, NY Times
    1. Does Information Technology Provide Banks With Profit?, Info. & Management
  6. Why The Grass Is Not Always Greener: The Competing Effects, Ecol. Economics
  7. A Global Index Of Biocultural Diversity, Ecol. Indicators
  8. Ethanol's Stock as a Fuel Source Is Rising, NY Times
    1. Nanoantennas for Light Emission, Science
  9. Gamers Turn Cities Into A Battleground, New Scientist
    1. Emotional Intelligence For Computer-Based Characters?, IST News
    2. Information Geometry And Encoding The Biosystems Organization, J. Biol. Sys.
  10. Enough Keyword Searches. Just Answer My Question., NY Times
    1. Searching for a Reason to Buy Google, NY Times
  11. Most Earth-like exoplanet yet is discovered, New Scientist
  12. Cell Biology: Powerful Curves, Nature
  13. Giant Viruses in the Oceans : The 4th Algal Virus Workshop, arXiv
  14. Interactions Matter—Complexity in Landscapes and Ecosystems, Ecological Complexity
  15. Sex And The Suffering Brain, Science
  16. Kinky Bypass Grafts Last Longer, New Scientist
  17. Obesity, Smoking Add Years To Cells' Age, Reuters
    1. Obesity may accelerate the ageing process, New Scientist
  18. Take My Privacy, Please!, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Cheney Calls Guant?namo Prison Essential, NY Times
    2. Some Held at Guant?namo Are Minors, Lawyers Say, NY Times
    3. The Madrassa Myth, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2005.23 Next Issue TOP

  1. Human behaviour: Brain trust, Nature
    1. Oxytocin increases trust in humans, Nature
    2. Investing on a Whiff: Chemical spray shows power as trust booster, Science News
  2. A Mini-Enron on Every Corner?, NY Times
    1. Stocks Whose Futures Are on Sale, Fool.com
    2. Another Drink? Sure. China Is Paying., NY Times
    3. Will It Take a Tariff to Free the Yuan?, NY Times
  3. UK research councils claim success for open-access publishing plan, Nature
  4. The best solution, Nature
    1. Can Tamiflu save us from bird flu?, New Scientist
  5. Molecular medicine: Lost in translation, Nature
    1. Gene regulation: Kissing chromosomes, Nature
    2. Prion Toxicity: All Sail and No Anchor, Science
  6. Feeling the Beat: Movement Influences Infant Rhythm Perception, Science
  7. Mission to build a simulated brain begins, New Scientist
    1. Some Brain Cells 'Change Channels' To Fine-tune The Message, ScienceDaily
    2. Epigenetic Robotics: Modelling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems, Cognitive Systems Research
    3. Modelling Biological Complexity: A Physical Scientist's Perspective, Interface
  8. Sponging dolphins learn from mum, BBC News
    1. For Fruit Flies, Gene Shift Tilts Sex Orientation, NY Times
  9. 'Walking' octopus inspires soft robots, BBC News
    1. A Better Robot, With Help From Roaches, NY Times
  10. See virtual worlds in the round, New Scientist
    1. Molecular electronics: Charged with manipulation, Nature
    2. Morphing Memory - Superfast atom shuffling inspires data-storage alternatives, Science News
  11. Cosmology: Digitizing the Universe, Nature
    1. Simulations of the formation, evolution and clustering of galaxies and quasars, Nature
  12. Scaling Patterns in Exotic and Native Bird Species Distribution and Abundance, SFI Working Papers
  13. Bush Aide Softened Greenhouse Gas Links to Global Warming, NY Times
    1. Earth's Energy Imbalance: Confirmation and Implications, Science
  14. Chaos Theory As A Model For Interpreting Information Systems In Organizations, Info. Sys. J.
    1. Self-Organizing Information Fusion And Hierarchical Knowledge Discovery, Neural Networks
  15. Modes Of Communication During Jazz Improvisation, British J. Music Edu.
    1. What Creativity Isn't: The Presumptions Of Instrumental And Individual Justifications For Creativity In Education, British J. Edu. Studies
  16. Evolution Of Cooperation By Generalized Reciprocity, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    1. Metamorphoses Of Power: From Coercion To Cooperation?, Asian J. Social Sc.
    2. Formal Aspects of the Emergence of Institutions, SFI Working Papers
  17. In-Flight Voice And Data Communications Takes Off, IST News
  18. The State of Iraq: An Update, NY Times
    1. War From the Top Down, NY Times
    2. Latin Nations Resist Plan for Monitor of Democracy, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Report Presses Easy Ways to Fix Airline Security, NY Times
    2. U.S. Set to Test Missile Defenses Aboard Airlines, NY Times
    3. Rights, Security and Perception, Post-9/11, NPR TOTN
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Complexity Digest 2005.22 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Great Chain Of Being, Nature
  2. Wall Street's Gradual Green Revolution, Nature
    1. Trust In Troubled Times, China Quarterly
  3. A Network Analysis of Committees in the United States House of Representatives, arXiv
  4. The Epidemics of Corruption, arXiv
    1. Fifteen Minutes of Fame: The Dynamics of Information Access on the Web, arXiv
  5. New Portal Provides Audiovisual Scientific Information, IST News
  6. Self-Wiring Supercomputer Is Cool And Compact, New Scientist
    1. Physicists Control The Flip Of Electron Spin, PhysOrg.om
  7. Solid-State Light Sources Getting Smart, Science
  8. A Weapon The World Needs, Nature
    1. Avian Flu Special: Avian Flu: Are We Ready?, Nature
    2. Genetic Analyses Suggest Bird Flu Virus Is Evolving, Science
  9. Developmental Biology: A Blank Canvas No More, Nature
    1. Infant Categorization Of Faces: Ladies First, Dev. Rev.
    2. 11 Steps To A Better Brain, New Scientist
  10. One Cause for All Confabulations?, Science
  11. Rare Items Often Missed In Visual Searches, Nature
  12. A Developmental Switch In Neuronal Differentiation, Public Library of Science
    1. To A Zebra Finch: How The Brain Cultivates Birdsong, Public Library of Science
    2. The Neural Basis Of Birdsong, Public Library of Science
  13. Spider Signals: Are Web Decorations Visible To Birds And Bees?, Biol. Lett.
    1. Advertisers Tap Brain Science, Wired
    2. The Urge to Win, NY Times
  14. Revolutionary Nanotechnology Illuminates Brain Cells At Work, PhysOrg
    1. Magnetic Resonance Goes Nano, Technology Research News
  15. Resting Microglial Cells Are Highly Dynamic Surveillants of Brain Parenchyma in Vivo, Science
  16. Planetary Science: When Giants Roamed, Nature
    1. Chaotic Capture Of Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids In The Early Solar System, Nature
    2. Scientists: Chaos Theory Solves Solar System Mysteries, Sci-Tech Today
  17. Controversial Study Suggests Seeing Gun Violence Promotes It, Science
    1. Ending the Gerrymander Wars, NY Times
  18. Robot Swarms Cloud Danger, IST News
    1. Linux Powers Airborne Bots, Wired
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. C.I.A. Expanding Terror Battle Under Guise of Charter Flights, NY Times
    2. In Rising Numbers, Lawyers Head for Guant?namo Bay, The NY Times
    3. Trying to Thwart Possible Terrorists Quickly, F.B.I. Agents Are Often Playing Them, The NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2005.21 Next Issue TOP

  1. Understanding Complex Systems - Computational Complexity and Bioinformatics, Virtual Conference Network
  2. Scholarly Journals' Premier Status Is Diluted by Web, The Wall Street Journal
    1. Why are Economists Sceptical About Agent-Based Simulations?, Physica A
    2. A mechanism for pockets of predictability in complex adaptive systems
  3. Making And Keeping Peace, Int. Org.
    1. Why Comply? The Domestic Constituency Mechanism, Int. Org.
    2. Special Report: Taking On The Cheats, Nature
    3. Wanted: Better Benchmarks, Science
  4. Understanding Sarcasm Is A Complex Business, New Scientist
    1. Seriously, the Joke Is Dead, NY Times
    2. Reading Complexity In Chua's Oscillator Through Music: A New Way Of Understanding Chaos, Int. J. Bifur. & Chaos
  5. Large Genomic Differences Explain Our Little Quirks, Nature
    1. Evolutionary Biology: Geography And Skin Colour, Nature
    2. Psychology: Red Enhances Human Performance In Contests, Nature
  6. China, the World's Capital, NY Times
    1. The Chinese Connection, NY Times
  7. Air-Travel Maths Could Limit Spread Of Disease, New Scientist
  8. Korean Team Speeds Up Creation Of Cloned Human Stem Cells, Science
    1. Stem-Cell Niches: It's The Ecology, Stupid!, Nature
  9. Molecular Motors: Kinesin Steps Back, Nature
  10. Control at the Quantum Level, Science
    1. Color-Changing Nanoparticles Offer A Golden Ruler for Molecules, Science
  11. How Much Do You Need To Know To Take Down The Mafia Or Destroy A Computer Network?, ScienceDaily
    1. Exploration of Scale-free Networks, arXiv
    2. Why Does The Internet Experience Delays And Losses At Busy Times?, Proc.: Math., Phys. & Engg. Sc.
  12. Brain Maps, Great And Small: Lessons From Comparative Studies, Phil. Tran.: Biol. Sc.
    1. Too Much Knowledge Can Be Bad For Some Types Of Memory, ScienceDaily
    2. Neuroscience: Plasticity And Its Limits, Nature
    3. A Cost of Long-Term Memory in Drosophila, Science
  13. Female Spiders Try Eating Mate Even Before Sex, New Scientist
    1. Honeybee Workers Use Cues Other Than Egg Viability For Policing, Biol. Lett.
    2. Social Amoeba Sheds Light On Communication In Human Brain, ScienceDaily
  14. Complexity as a Sensemaking Framework, Finland Futures Research Centre publications
    1. Concept: Capturing Chaos, Nature
  15. Is The Sky-Hook Configuration Stable?, Nonlin. Dyn.
    1. Human-Powered Hydrofoil Seeks Jumpy Riders, New Scientist
  16. Distinguishing Random Environmental Fluctuations From Ecological Catastrophes For The North Pacific Ocean, Nature
    1. Simulation of Geographical Trends in Chowdhury Ecosystem Model, arXiv
    2. Diversity as a Product of Interspecial Interactions, arXiv
  17. Earthquakes: Future Shock In California, Nature
    1. Periodically Triggered Seismicity at Mount Wrangell, Alaska, After the Sumatra Earthquake, Science
  18. 'Blink' Meets 'Freakonomics', NY Times
    1. Darth Vader's Family Values, NY Times
    2. A Love Affair With S.U.V.'s Begins to Cool, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Guantanamo Comes to Define U.S. to Muslims, NY Times
    2. U.S. Memo Faults Afghan Leader on Heroin Fight, NY Times
    3. It's All Newsweek's Fault, NY Times
    4. Generals Offer Sober Outlook on Iraqi War, NY Times
    5. Syria Severs Military Cooperation With U.S. - NYT, Reuters
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Complexity Digest 2005.20 Next Issue TOP

  1. Somewhat Logically - Culling Sacred Cows
  2. An Emptier Emptiness?, Nature
  3. Asymmetrical Threat Averted
    1. Natural Symmetry, Nature
  4. An Analysis Of Neural Models For Walking Control, IEEE Tran. Neural Networks
  5. Auditory Learning: A Developmental Method, IEEE Tran. Neural Networks
    1. Hand Gestures Linked To Better Speaking, ScienceDaily
  6. Marketing a Disease, and Also a Drug to Treat It, NY Times
  7. Enhancement Of Cellular Memory, Nature
  8. Catalytic Reaction Zaps Bacteria, Nature
  9. Gay Men Are Found to Have Different Scent of Attraction, NY Times
  10. The Line Between Life and Death, NY Times
    1. How Exactly Does The Brain Control Breathing?, ScienceDaily
  11. Learning To Listen - How Some Vertebrates Evolved Biological Sonar, Science News
    1. Homing Pigeons are Forgetful Too, Science Now
    2. Waggle Dance Leads Bees To Nectar, BBC
  12. US Robot Builds Copies Of Itself, BBC
  13. Nonlinear Elasticity In Biological Gels, Nature
  14. Early African Migrants Made Eastward Exit, Nature
  15. The Origin Of Bursts And Heavy Tails In Human Dynamics, Nature
  16. A Web of Sensors, Taking Earth's Pulse, NY Times
    1. Pathogen Adaptation To Seasonal Forcing And Climate Change, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    2. Causes And Consequences Of Animal Dispersal Strategies: Relating Individual Behaviour To Spatial Dynamics, Biol. Rev.
  17. Cliff Quivers Warn Of Collapse, Nature
    1. Information Propagation, Nature
  18. Before the Flood, NY Times
    1. Issue in China: Labor Camps That Operate Outside the Courts, NY Times
    2. 'Don't Outsource North Korea Problem to China', The Korea Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Terror Suspect Was CIA Informant, UPI/Washington Times
    2. One Standard For Terrorists, NY Times
    3. A Single Standard for Terrorists, NY Times
    4. Row of Loosely Guarded Targets Lies Just Outside New York City, NY Times
    5. Chemical Time Bombs, NY Times
    6. Terrorism, Social Movements, And International Security: How Al Qaeda Affects Southeast Asia, Japanese J. Polit. Sc.
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Complexity Digest 2005.19 Next Issue TOP

  1. In Pursuit Of Systems, Nature
    1. A General Methodology for Designing Self-Organizing Systems, arXiv
    2. Cooperative Game Theory within Multi-Agent Systems for Systems Scheduling, arXiv
  2. Is A Democratic-Capitalist System Compatible With A Low-Growth Or Steady-State Economy?, Socio-Econ. Rev.
    1. Credit Rankings of G.M. and Ford Lowered to Junk, NY Times
    2. The Peculiar Externalities Of Professional Team Sports, Econ. Inquiry
  3. Google Seeks Patents To Rank News Based On Quality, Reuters
    1. Beware How You Google, IST News
    2. Google Eyes Better News Searches, BBC News
  4. Quantum Crypto Move Out Of The Lab, IST News
  5. A Life Science Semantic Web -- Are We There Yet?, Science
    1. An Endless Frontier Postponed, Science
    2. All for One and One for All, Science
    3. Distributed Computing: Grassroots Supercomputing, Science
  6. Service-Oriented Science, Science
  7. Managing Ecosystem Services: What Do We Need To Know About Their Ecology?, Eco. Lett.
    1. One Law Rules Dedicated Followers Of Fashion, New Scientist
    2. Why Don't We Just Kiss And Make Up?, New Scientist
  8. Technology: Electronic Paper: A Revolution About to Unfold?, Science
  9. Attractor Dynamics in the Hippocampal Representation of the Local Environment, Science
    1. Neuroscience: Attractors in Memory, Science
    2. Memory Mimic Aids Reading, Technology Research News
    3. Buffalo Fireman Regains Long-Lost Memories, NY Times
  10. Neuroscience: Matching at the Synapse, Science
    1. Neuroscience: The Dark Side of Glia, Science
    2. Bees, Brains And Addiction, ScienceDaily
    3. Worth The Wait? A Neural Mechanism Related To Impulsive Decision-making, ScienceDaily
  11. Hotwire My Heart, Nature
  12. Is Acupuncture a Sham for Migraines?, Science Now
    1. New Drug Offers Jitter-Free Mental Boost, New Scientist
  13. Mouse Research Bolsters Controversial Theory Of Aging, Scientific American
    1. Living to Eat Cheese Another Day, Science Now
    2. Antioxidants A Key To 'Long Life', BBC News
    3. Longer Telomeres Associated With Higher Survival In Birds, Biol. Lett.
  14. Killer Dino 'Turned Vegetarian', BBC News
    1. Dinos Go Veggie, Science Now
  15. Fossils Illuminate Fish Evolution, BBC News
    1. Augmenting the Animal Kingdom, Wired News
  16. Developmental Biology: Morphogens Hitch A Greasy Ride, Nature
  17. Was Early Earth a Cool World?, Science Now
    1. Cleaner Air Makes Brighter Skies, BBC News
    2. Promoting Energy Efficiency, NPR TOTN
  18. Time Travelers to Meet in Not Too Distant Future, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Congress May Require Closer Scrutiny to Get a Driver's License, NY Times
    2. An Unrealistic 'Real ID', NY Times
    3. Captured Al-Qaeda Kingpin Is Case Of 'Mistaken Identity', Timesonline/Al-Jazeerah
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Complexity Digest 2005.18 Next Issue TOP

  1. Scientists Make Bacteria Behave Like Computers, LiveScience.com
    1. Neuron Savers: Gene Therapy Slows Alzheimer's Disease, Science News
    2. Acupuncture Activates The Brain, Nature
    3. Scientists Create Animals That Are Part-Human, The Associated Press
  2. Read All About It - Kids Take Different Neural Paths To Reach Print Mastery, Science Now
    1. Love of Learning Language Transcends All Ages, Washington Post
  3. Neuroscience: Understanding Intentions: Through the Looking Glass, Science
    1. Parietal Lobe: From Action Organization to Intention Understanding, Science
    2. Macaques Recognize When They Are Being Imitated, Biol. Lett.
    3. The Ecology And Evolution Of Patience In Two New World Monkeys, Biol. Lett.
  4. Seeing It My Way: A Case Of A Selective Deficit In Inhibiting Self-Perspective, Brain
  5. PR Firms Show Growing Interest In Weblogs, IST News
    1. Hierarchical Bayesian Collective Risk Model: An Application To Health Insurance, Insurance: Math. & Econ.
  6. Losing Sleep: Mutant Flies Need Less Shut-Eye, Science News
    1. Reduced Sleep In Drosophila Shaker Mutants, Nature
  7. 'Hitchhiker's Guide' and the Answer to Everything, NPR TOTN
    1. The Meaning Of Life, CNN
    2. Dealing With Design, Nature
    3. Intelligent Design: Who Has Designs On Your Students' Minds?, Nature
  8. Pygmy Found Near Home Of Hobbits, Herald Sun
    1. Evolutionary Biology: Animal Roots And Shoots, Nature
  9. Network Theory--the Emergence of the Creative Enterprise, Science
    1. The Emergence of Symbiotic Groups Resulting From Skill-Differentiation and Tags, Cogprints
    2. Evolutionary Equilibrium with Forward-Looking Players, SFI Working Papers
    3. Fiat Money and the Natural Scale of Government, SFI Working Papers
    4. How Individuals Learn to Take Turns: Emergence of Alternating Cooperation in a Congestion Game and the Prisoner’s Dilemma, SFI Working Papers
  10. A Synthetic Multicellular System For Programmed Pattern Formation, Nature
    1. Behavioural Ecology: Cue For Kin, Nature
  11. Climate Change Alters Genes On The Fly, Nature
  12. Relating Land-Use Intensity And Biodiversity At The Regional Scale, Basic & Appl. Ecol.
  13. Quantum Physics: The Philosopher Of Photons, Nature
    1. Video Conferencing Gets Quantum Security, Nature
    2. Predicting With Unpredictability, Nature
  14. Online News Growing At Expense Of TV, Papers, IST News
  15. Ocean Science: Ocean Mixing in 10 Steps, Science
  16. Crystal Creates Table-Top Fusion, Nature
    1. Physicists Look To Crystal Device For Future Of Fusion, Nature
    2. Technology: Warm Fusion, Nature
    3. Nanotechnology: High-Speed Integrated Nanowire Circuits, Nature
    4. Structural Biology: Nature's Rotary Electromotors, Science
  17. New Accountability In China, Nature
    1. Texas Officials Shrug Off Fine Over Bush Law, NY Times
    2. In Problem-Solving Court, Judges Turn Therapist, NY Times
    3. Nation's Inmate Population Increased 2.3 Percent Last Year, NY Times
    4. In Telecast, Frist Defends His Effort to Stop Filibusters, NY Times
  18. A Currency Afloat (for All of 20 Minutes), NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Terror in the Past And Future Tense, NY Times
    2. U.S. Recruits a Rough Ally to Be a Jailer, NY Times
    3. U.S. Sees Drop in Terrorist Threats, Washing Post
    4. Pentagon Moves To Bar CIA 'Ghost' Detainees, Daily Times
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Complexity Digest 2005.17 Next Issue TOP

  1. Studying The Emerging Global Brain: Analyzing And Visualizing The Impact Of Co-Authorship Teams, Complexity
    1. The Convergence of the Digital-Libraries and the Peer-Review Process, arXiv
    2. Generation of Information and Complexity: Different Forms of Learning and Innovation: A Simple Mechanism of Learning, Complexity
    3. Denmark On Top Rank In Web-Savvy, IST News
  2. Archaic Genes in Modern People?, Science
  3. Modern Humans Made Their Point, Science
    1. Striking A Chord, Nature
  4. Microbial Fuel Cell: High Yield Hydrogen Source And Wastewater Cleaner, Penn State News
  5. New Superlens Opens Door To Nanoscale Optical Imaging, High-Density Optoelectronics, University of California - Berkeley, News Release
    1. Moon Patterns, Sun Patterns, And Wave Breaking In Rotating Granular Mixtures, Complexity
  6. Insect Behaviour: Arboreal Ants Build Traps To Capture Prey, Nature
    1. Trap-Building Ants Torture Prey, BBC News
  7. Common Infections Blamed For Childhood Leukaemia, Nature
    1. Watching Single Cells Pay Attention, Science
  8. Neurobiology: Sculpted By Competition, Nature
    1. Spiking Dynamics Of Interacting Oscillatory Neurons, Chaos
  9. 'Info-Mania' Dents IQ More Than Marijuana, New Scientist
    1. Sources Of Complexity In Subset Choice, J. Math. Psycho.
    2. Ignoring Information In Binary Choice With Continuous Variables: When Is Less "More"?, J. Math. Psycho.
  10. Mood Brighteners: Light Therapy Gets Nod As Depression Buster, Science News
    1. The Science of Child Sexual Abuse, Science
  11. H2S Induces a Suspended Animation-Like State in Mice, Science
  12. When Nature Assaults Itself, NY Times
    1. A Model Of Harmful Algal Blooms, Math. & Comp. Model.
  13. Evolutionary Ecology in-silico: Does Mathematical Modelling Help in Understanding the "Generic" Trends?, arXiv
  14. Retreating Glacier Fronts on the Antarctic Peninsula over the Past Half-Century, Science
    1. Warming of the Eurasian Landmass Is Making the Arabian Sea More Productive, Science
    2. Once-Balmy Climate Lured Humans to England Early, Science
  15. Seasonal Prediction Of Hurricane Activity Reaching The Coast Of The United States, Nature
    1. Global Warming Skeptic Argues U.S. Position in Suit, Science
  16. Dark Influence - Most Of The Universe's Matter Is Out Of Sight, But Not Out Of Mind, Science News
  17. Applied Physics: How to Build a Superlens, Science
    1. Applied Physics: Toward a Universal Memory, Science
    2. Molecular Breakthrough For Plastic Electronics, ScienceDaily
  18. Cell Biology: A Fishing Buddy for Hypothesis Generators, Science
    1. Guiding ATM to Broken DNA, Science
    2. Plant Sciences: Recognition at a Distance, Science
    3. Poplar Trees Redirect Resources In Response To Simulated Insect Attack, ScienceDaily
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. New Terrorism Response Plan Angers Fire Dept, NY Times
    2. Africa's Terror Havens: The Next Wave, CBN News
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Complexity Digest 2005.16 Next Issue TOP

  1. Complexity Theory and Geographies of Health: A Critical Assessment, Social Science & Medicine
    1. Economic demography in fuzzy spatial dilemmas and power laws, Eur.. Phys. J. B
  2. Why Einstein May Have Got It Wrong, The Guardian
    1. Scientist Suggests Big Loop Theory Of The Universe
  3. Navigating Celestial Currents, Science News
  4. Risk-taking Men 'Not Attractive', BBC News
  5. Physics And The Public: Science As Illusion, Nature
    1. Research Worth Fighting For, NY Times
  6. Is There An Emerging International Rule Of Law?, Euro. Rev.
    1. Accountability And Abuses Of Power In World Politics, Ameri. Poli. Sc. Rev.
  7. Bush Disarms, Unilaterally, NY Times
    1. Study Finds Shortcoming in New Law on Education, NY Times
  8. Brain Aging: Reorganizing Discoveries About The Aging Mind, Current Opin. Neurobiol..
    1. Neuroscientists Locate 'Imaginary' Colors, ScienceDaily
    2. Brain-Dead From Sports Drinks, NY Times
  9. Researcher Sheds Light On Ghostwriting In Medical Journals, ScienceDaily
    1. The Medical Money Pit, NY Times
  10. Humor Can Increase Hope, Research Shows, ScienceDaily
  11. On Recursive Production and Evolvabilty of Cells: Catalytic Reaction Network Approach, arXiv
    1. Complex grid computing, Eur. Phys. J. B
  12. Mapping the Human Race's Journey
    1. Was the Human Genome Project Worth the Effort?, Science
  13. Cockroaches Inspire Robot Design, IST News
  14. Does High Indebtedness Increase Natural Resource Exploitation?, Env. & Dev. Econ.
    1. Importing Timber, Exporting Ecological Impact, Science
  15. Engineered Grain Uses Gene From People To Protect Against Herbicides, Science News
  16. Channels For Pathfinding, Nature
    1. Of Grainy Heads and Broken Skins, Science
  17. Gasping for Air in Permian Hard Times, Science
    1. Hypoxia, Global Warming, and Terrestrial Late Permian Extinctions, Science
    2. The Dustiest Place on Earth, Nature
  18. Life on the Early Earth: A Sedimentary View, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Revising the Patriot Act, NY Times
    2. The Calm Before the Storm?, NY Times
    3. Using Advanced Physics to Find Concealed Weapons, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2005.15 Next Issue TOP

  1. One Hundred Years of Uncertainty, NY Times
  2. A Lucrative Brand of Tutoring Grows Unchecked, NY Times
    1. Fixing 'No Child Left Behind', NY Times
    2. Do 15-Month-Old Infants Understand False Beliefs?, Science
    3. Infants' Insight into the Mind: How Deep?, Science
  3. Keeping Fear in Check, Science Now
    1. Understanding Biological Foundation Of Human Behavior Critical To Improving Laws, ScienceDaily
    2. Vasopressin And Oxytocin Excite Distinct Neuronal Populations In The Central Amygdala, Science
  4. Building a Spinal Cord Network, Science Now
    1. Marburg's Behaviour Bewilders Scientists, Nature News
  5. Emory Scientist Finds Different Paths Lead To Similar Cognitive Abilities, EurekAlert
    1. Save the World and Get a) Redemption or b) Pay, NY Times
    2. Sony patent takes first step towards real-life Matrix, New Scientist
  6. Remote Control Flies, Science Now
    1. Radar Reveals Purpose In Butterfly Flights, Nature News
    2. Tracking Butterfly Flight Paths Across The Landscape With Harmonic Radar, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  7. Non-Acoustic Sensors Detect Speech Without Sound, New Scientist
  8. Programmed DNA Forms Fractal, Technology Research News
  9. A Single-Protein Wet Biotransistor, Physics News Update
    1. A Bio-Physically Inspired Silicon Neuron, Circuits & Sys.
  10. The Coming Chip Revolution, Business Week
    1. Gordon Moore On 40 Years Of His Processor Law, CNET News.com
    2. Laptops For The Poor, IST News
  11. Distributed Economies – A New Engine for Innovation, Journal of Cleaner Production
    1. Marginal Lands In Europe-Causes Of Decline, Basic & Appl. Ecol.
  12. Stirring The Primordial Soup, Nature
    1. Great Extinction Came in Phases, BBC News
    2. The Dynamics Of Genetic And Morphological Variation On Volcanic Islands, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  13. Facelift Seals Standing of Oldest Hominid, News @ Nature
  14. Code Of Many Colors - Can Researchers See Race In The Genome?, Science News
  15. Cosmic Dust Supports a Snowball Earth, Science Now
    1. Galactic Pancake Mystery Solved, BBC News
  16. US Drivers Fume As Gas Prices Soar, BBC News
  17. U.S. Drones Crowding the Skies to Help Fight Insurgents in Iraq, NY Times
  18. Opium vs. Democracy in Afghanistan, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Global Health Agency Split Over Potential Anti-Terrorism Duties, Nature
    2. Terrorist Attacks on Reactor Pools, NY Times
    3. Nuclear Plants Warned Of Terrorist Fire Hazard, Nature News
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Complexity Digest 2005.14 Next Issue TOP

  1. Shaping the Future, Scientific American
  2. Building Trust in the Brain, Science Now
    1. Getting to Know You: Reputation and Trust in a Two-Person Economic Exchange, Science
    2. Economic Game Shows How the Brain Builds Trust, Science
    3. From Underdogs To Tigers: The Rise And Growth Of The Software Industry, OUP Book Review
  3. Free Trade May Have Finished Off Neanderthals, New Scientist
    1. Income Inequality And Working-Age Mortality: A Cross-Sectional Analysis, J. Urban Health
  4. Black Holes 'Do Not Exist', Nature
    1. Star Packed: Super Cluster Is First To Be Detected In Milky Way, Science News
    2. Probing the Geodynamo, Scientific American
  5. In the Business of Synthetic Life, Scientific American
    1. Evolution: Where We're Hot, They're Not, Science
    2. Walking Made Simple, Science
  6. Beyond a Joke: From Animal Laughter to Human Joy?, Science
    1. Animal Laughs No Joke Says Expert, BBC News
    2. How Animals Do Business, Scientific American
    3. Researchers Locate "Funny" Gene, Science Now
  7. Confronting The Human Dilemma, Nature
    1. Ecology: Ecosystem Services, Science
    2. Planet In Peril: Humans Push Natural Systems To The Brink, New Scientist
    3. Planet In Peril: Civilisation's Litany Of Destruction, New Scientist
    4. Detritus Of Life Abounds In The Atmosphere, New Scientist
  8. Mathematics: 'Cranky' Proof Reveals Hidden Regularities, Science
    1. A State Of Ignorance, Nature
  9. The Janus Face Of Mnemosyne, Nature
    1. To Train The Eye, Keep It Simple: Human Eyes Learn Best In An Uncluttered Setting, Innovations-Report
    2. Researchers Call For Expanding The Repertoire In Studying Birdsong, ScienceDaily
  10. Digital Future "When Things Start to Think", c-span
    1. Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend, NY Times
    2. On The Internet, 2nd (And 3rd And . . . ) Opinions, NY Times
    3. The Graying Of America And Support For Funding The Nation's Schools, Public Opinion Quarterly
  11. Dying Honeybees Threaten Agriculture Industry, NPR Day to Day
    1. Pandemic Bug Returns As Community MRSA Strain, New Scientist
    2. Infectious Diseases: A Puzzling Outbreak of Marburg Disease, Science
    3. Marburg Virus Outbreak In Africa, Nature
  12. The Alternative Genome, Scientific American
    1. Unnatural Amino Acid Could Prove Boon for Protein Therapeutics, Science
    2. Full Stem Ahead, Science News
    3. Nanofibers Seed Blood Vessels, Science
    4. A Genetic Wake-Up Call, New Scientist
    5. Crippling A Single Protein Combats Arthritis, Nature
  13. Still Hungry?, Science News
  14. Structural Biology: DNA Search And Rescue, Nature
    1. Evolutionary Biology: Why Sex Is Good, Nature
    2. The Benefits of Sex, Science Now
  15. Cell Biology: The More MAD, The Merrier, Nature
  16. Biochemistry: A Pore Way To Die, Nature
    1. Sepsis: The Monster Within, New Scientist
  17. Body Rhythms Set A Dangerous Beat, New Scientist
  18. Metallic Glass: A Drop Of The Hard Stuff, New Scientist
    1. Hybrid-Car Tinkerers Scoff at No-Plug-In Rule, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Iraq War Being Used To Recruit Disaffected Young Muslims, Seattle Times
    2. Rings That Kidnap Iraqis Thrive on Big Threats and Bigger Profits, NY Times
    3. Tyranny's Full Tank, NY Times
    4. Fast, Sensitive Scan Targets Anthrax, Science
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Complexity Digest 2005.13 Next Issue TOP

  1. A New Company to Focus on Artificial Intelligence, NY Times
    1. Jeff Hawkins' Bold Brainstorm, Business Week
    2. The Book Stops Here, Wired
    3. IBM Computing Algorithm Thinks Like An Animal, CNET News.com
  2. Fastest Supercomputer Gets Faster, BBC News
    1. Newest Chip Is Combination of Fiber Optics and Electronics, NY Times
    2. The Fax Machine: Technology That Refuses to Die, NY Times
  3. Introduction to the Special Issue: Embodied and Situated Cognition, Artificial Life
    1. Bacteria Act As Glue In Nanomachines, Nature News
  4. Influences On Creativity In Asynchronous Virtual Teams, IEEE Tran. Professional Commun.
    1. Activating Knowledge Through Electronic Collaboration: Vanquishing The Knowledge Paradox, IEEE Tran. Professional Commun.
    2. Self-organizing social hierarchies on scale-free networks, arXiv
  5. Towards a New Democracy: Consensus Through Quantum Parliament, arXiv
    1. The Environmental Limits To Globalization, Conserv. Biol.
  6. U.S. Education Research: Can Randomized Trials Answer the Question of What Works?, Science
    1. Imagination Gets Its Due As A Real-World Thinking Tool, Science News
    2. China's Human Capital Investment, China Eco. Rev.
    3. Employers Relying On Personality Tests To Screen Applicants, Washington Post
  7. Buckle Up for the Dollar's Ride, NY Times
  8. What Happens Once the Oil Runs Out?, NY Times
    1. Coal in a Nice Shade of Green, NY Times
    2. Me and My Hybrid, NY Times
  9. Ocean Flow Amplified, Not Triggered, Climate Change, Science
    1. Catastrophe Modeling: A New Approach to Managing Risk, Knowledge Wharton
    2. At NASA, Clouds Are What You Zoom Through to Get to Mars, NY Times
    3. How Dirty Air Hurts the Heart, Science
  10. Right-To-Die Case Highlights Brain Mysteries, Nature
    1. Assessing Awareness, TOTN
    2. Schiavo Case Puts Face on Rising Medical Costs, The Washington Post
    3. The God Racket, From DeMille to DeLay, NY Times
  11. Family Wonders if Prozac Prompted School Shootings, NY Times
    1. Weighing the Difference Between Treating Pain and Dealing Drugs, NY Times
    2. Scientists Discover What You Are Thinking, Caltech News Release
    3. Casual Sex or Wedding Bells?, Science Now
  12. The Dynamic Gut, Science
    1. Self-Renewal and Cancer of the Gut: Two Sides of a Coin, Science
    2. Cancers of the Gut and Western Ills, Science
    3. Host-Bacterial Mutualism in the Human Intestine, Science
    4. Wrinkles Could Be Less Than Skin Deep, New Scientist
  13. Plant Inherits Repaired Gene, TOTN
    1. Reversing Evolution, Science Now
    2. Startling Scientists, Plant Fixes Its Flawed Gene, NY Times
    3. Hidden RNA May Fix Mutant Genes, Science
  14. The Synthesis and Evolution of a Supermodel, Science
    1. Chicks Used To Create Nerve Cells, BBC News
  15. When Cute Deer Go Bad, NY Times
    1. Flies Have Crystal Vision, Science Now
    2. Underwater Bipedal Locomotion by Octopuses in Disguise, Science
  16. Elephant Talks Like a Truck, Science Now
    1. Roosts As Information Centres: Social Learning Of Food Preferences In Bats, Biol. Lett.
    2. Surprisingly Complex Behaviors Appear To Be 'Hard-Wired' In The Primate Brain, ScienceDaily
  17. The Fractal Dimension Of Ionization Cascades In The Glow Discharge, Appl. Phys.
    1. Sucking Away the Splatter, Science Now
  18. Bose-Einstein Condensates Interfere and Survive, Science
    1. What Is Dark Energy And How Do We Know It's There?, PSU News Release
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Ethics: A Weapon to Counter Bioterrorism, Science
    2. Panel Ignored Evidence on Detainee, The Washington Post
    3. Justice Redacted Memo on Detainees, The Washington Post
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Complexity Digest 2005.12 Next Issue TOP

  1. Nonlinearity, Fluctuations, and Complexity, Complexity Digest Virtual Conference Network
  2. Five Open Questions About Prediction Markets, MoneyScience Financial Intelligence Network
    1. The Power of a Good Idea: Quantitative Modeling of the Spread of Ideas from Epidemiological Models, SFI Working Papers
    2. Metropolitan Patenting, Inventor Agglomeration and Social Networks: A Tale of Two Effects, SFI Working Papers
    3. Elite Transformation and Organizational Invention in Renaissance Florence, SFI Working Papers
  3. Is Equality Of Opportunity Politically Feasible?, Econ. & Politics
    1. Can Papers End the Free Ride Online?, NY Times
    2. Accountability And Corruption: Political Institutions Matter, Econ. & Politics
  4. Failing the Wrong Grades, NY Times
    1. Testing Scandal in Texas Schools, NPR ME
    2. Student Scientists To Watch: With Diverse Ideas, Young Talents Win Big In Annual Competition, Science News
    3. American Youngsters Yawning Through Class, Discovery.com
  5. 13 Things That Do Not Make Sense, New Scientist
    1. Self-Organized Origami, Science
    2. New Photofit 'Evolves' A Suspect's Face, New Scientist
  6. Pay Up, You Are Being Watched, New Scientist
    1. Cops with Six Legs, Science News
    2. Global Warming Could Trigger Ant Invasions, New Scientist
    3. Insects, Viruses Could Hold Key For Better Human Teamwork In Disasters, ScienceDaily
  7. Pioneer In Artificial-Intelligence Software Devises New Theory Of Cognition, PhysOrg.com
    1. Artificial Intelligence Marches Forward
  8. Tracking the Uncertain Science of Growing Heart Cells, NY Times
    1. Gene-Silencing Technique Could Fight ALS, Forbes
    2. Fasting Every Other Day, While Cutting Few Calories, May Reduce Cancer Risk, UC Berkeley News
  9. DNA With Three Base Pairs - A Step Towards Expanding The Genetic Code, EurekAlert
    1. Human Genomics: Disclosure Of Variation, Nature
    2. Genome Biology: She Moves In Mysterious Ways, Nature
  10. Language: Syntax For Free?, Nature
    1. Neanderthals Spoke In A High-Pitched Sing-Song Voices, New Kerala
  11. Music, The Food Of Neuroscience?, Nature
    1. A Review Of Automatic Rhythm Description Systems, Comp. Music J.
    2. Zipf's Law, Music Classification, And Aesthetics, Comp. Music J.
    3. The Evolution Of Sensibility, Nature
    4. Poetry And Science: Greatness In Little
  12. From Maxwell demon to Brownian motor, New Journal of Physics
    1. A Non-Technical Introduction to Brownian Motion, Financial Engineering News
  13. Biomechanics: Independent Evolution Of Running In Vampire Bats, Nature
    1. Fossil Horses--Evidence for Evolution, Science News
  14. Introduced Species As Evolutionary Traps, Ecol. Lett.
  15. Optimal Eye Movement Strategies In Visual Search, Nature
    1. Study Shows Faces Are Processed Like Words, ScienceDaily
  16. Giant Space-Time Ripples May Cause Cosmic Expansion, New Scientist
    1. Planetary Science: Picturing A Recently Active Mars, Nature
  17. Is the Empire Striking Back?, NY Times
  18. Bush Defends Offering Video News Releases, NY Times
    1. And Now, the Counterfeit News, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Government Report on U.S. Aviation Warns of Security Holes, NY Times
    2. U.S. Report Lists Possibilities for Terrorist Attacks and Likely Toll, NY Times
    3. Homeland Insecurity, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2005.11 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Bubble That Ate The Universe, New Scientist
    1. Stars Watch Their Weight, Science Now
    2. Lightning Linked To Gap In Radiation Belts, New Scientist
  2. Summarizing Complexity in High Dimensions, Phys. Rev. Lett.
    1. Self-similarity of Complex Networks, arXiv
    2. How Much Information Can One Store in a Non-equilibrium Medium?, arXiv
  3. Why It Is Hard To Share The Wealth, New Scientist
    1. Meat Sharing For Coalitional Support, Evol. & Human Behav.
    2. Free of Quota, China Textiles Flood the U.S., NY Times
    3. The Inescapable Need For Fractal Tools In Finance, Annals of Finance
    4. Who Wins in a New Social Security?, NY Times
  4. Topic: Essays Are Useful. Discuss, NY Times
    1. The Powers And Pitfalls Of Algorithmic Knowledge: A Case Study, J. Math. Behav.
    2. Close Doesn't Always Count in Winning Games, NY Times
    3. How Much Can Your Mind Keep Track Of?, APS News Release
  5. Scientists To Make 'Stuart Little' Mouse With The Brain Of A Human
    1. Ghosts In A Machine - What Is It That Triggers The Brain To Produce A Religious Experience?, Times Online
    2. Busy Brains May Stave Off Alzheimer's Signs
    3. Brain Suffers from Boring Life, Science Now
    4. Musical Imagery: Sound Of Silence Activates Auditory Cortex, Nature
    5. When The Brain, Not The Ears, Goes Hard Of Hearing, ScienceDaily
  6. The Consummate Sperm Protein, Science Now
    1. Eggs Alone, Nature
    2. Developmental Biology: Sperm-Egg Fusion Unscrambled, Nature
  7. 'Safer' Stem Cells Bring Therapies Closer, New Scientist
    1. New York Air To Have Its Genes Sequenced, New Scientist
    2. Epigenetics: Surveillance Team Against Cancer, Nature
  8. The Long March of Human Genes, Science Now
    1. No Stone Age Unturned, Science Now
  9. Nature of Normal Human Variety
    1. Skeleton of Upright Human Ancestor Discovered in Ethiopia, Science
    2. Battle on Teaching Evolution Sharpens, The Washington Post
  10. Palaeobiology: Dating Earliest Life, Nature
    1. Pigs Domesticated 'Many Times', BBC News
    2. Malaria Prevalence Worse Than Thought, Science Now
    3. Animal Behaviour: Meals Sized Up, Nature
  11. Heavy Flags Undergo Spontaneous Oscillations in Flowing Water, Phys. Rev. Lett.
    1. Slick Surfaces: Pressure Builds To Make Better Motor Oils, Science News
    2. Can a Virus Hitch a Ride in Your Car?, NY Times
  12. Moore Says Nanoelectronics Face Tough Challenges, CNET News.com
    1. Cluster Computing Gets Closer, Science Now
  13. Get Ready For The "Desktop Search" Revolution, TrustedReviews
    1. What's The European Answer To Google - TERRIER, The Search Engine With Added Byte, University of Glasgow, Press Release
    2. Earlier Web Usage Statistics as Predictors of Later Citation Impact, arXiv
  14. Next Big Step For The Web--Or A Detour?, cnet
    1. The Pancake People, Or, "The Gods Are Pounding My Head" Vs. The Goedel-To-Google Net, Edge
  15. Movies, Technology and the Future of Viewing, NPR TOTN
    1. Under Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged Television News, NY Times
  16. U.S. Says It Has Withdrawn From World Judicial Body, NY Times
    1. Looting at Iraqi Weapons Plants Was Systematic, Official Says, NY Times
  17. A Destabilizing Bit of Research, NY Times
    1. Rules of Engagement, NY Times
  18. Global Public Health Experts Say Failure To Count Iraqi Casualties Is Irresponsible, British Med. J.
    1. Army, CIA Held 'Ghost' Prisoners at Abu Ghraib, The Washington Post
    2. Senators Question Absence of Blame in Abuse Report, Washington Post
    3. Rule Change Lets C.I.A. Freely Send Suspects Abroad to Jails, NY Times
    4. Torture by Proxy, NY Times
    5. Europeans Investigate CIA Role in Abductions, The Washington Post
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Terror Suspects Buying Firearms, U.S. Report Finds, NY Times
    2. Homegrown Osamas, NY Times
    3. Bush Calls Democracy Terror's Antidote, The Washington Post
    4. Hackers Target U.S. Power Grid, The Washington Post
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Complexity Digest 2005.10 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Digital Future, c-span
    1. Chinese Censors and Web Users Match Wits, NY Times
  2. Toward Alternative Metrics of Journal Impact: A Comparison of Download and Citation Data, arXiv
    1. The Game Academics Play: Editors Versus Authors, Bull. Econ. Res.
  3. Using The Internet In Teaching: The Views Of Practitioners, British J. Edu. Tech.
  4. Telemedicine Revolution Is 'Disappearing' From The NHS, ESRC Press Release
  5. What in the Name of Euclid Is Going On Here?, Science
    1. Have a Coq and a Smile, Science
  6. Experts Debate Whether 'Hobbits' Were Human, NPR ME
    1. Critics Silenced By Scans Of Hobbit Skull, Nature News
    2. The Brain of LB1, Homo floresiensis, Science
  7. Deep Brain Stimulation For Treatment-Resistant Depression, Neuron
    1. A Pacemaker for Depression?, Science Now
  8. Computer Obeys Thoughts Via Brain-Computer Interface, Acad. of Finland Press Release
  9. A Fishy Therapy, A Thriving But Controversial Dietary Supplement, Science News
    1. Shortcut To Big Heart: Pythons Build Cardiac Muscle In Record Time, Science News
  10. Natural Selection As We Speak, ScienceDaily
  11. New Research Opens A Window On The Minds Of Plants, The Christian Science Monitor
    1. Friends, Enemies Communicate With Plants In Similar Ways, ScienceDaily
  12. Ice or Lava Sea on Mars? A Transatlantic Debate Erupts, Science
    1. Deep-Sea Mission Finds Life In The Lost City, Nature
  13. Outdoing Mother Nature, Science Now
  14. Penrose: The Answer's Not 42, Wired News
    1. First Evidence For Entanglement of Three Macroscopic Objects, Physics News Update
  15. Brutal Bubbles: Collapsing Orbs Rip Apart Atoms, Science News
  16. The Reaction-Diffusion Approach to Morphogenesis, arXiv
  17. New Poll Finds Bush Priorities Are Out of Step With Americans, NY Times
  18. The Pain Maximiser, New Scientist
    1. A Force for Good, NY Times
    2. American Jails in Iraq Are Bursting With Detainees, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Top US Biologists Oppose Biodefence Boom, New Scientist
    2. Report Faults Smallpox Vaccination Campaign, Science Now
    3. With Terror in Mind, a Formulaic Way to Parse Sentences, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2005.09 Next Issue TOP

  1. Revealing Order In The Chaos, New Scientist
    1. The Hegemony of the Physical Sciences: An Exploration in Complexity Thinking, Futures
  2. Warning From the Markets, NY Times
    1. Honey, I Shrunk the Dollar, NY Times
    2. Private-Account Concept Grew From Obscure Roots, Washington Post
  3. The Human Science of Simulation: a Robust Hermeneutics for Artificial Societies, JASSS
    1. The Ghost in the Model (and Other Effects of Floating Point Arithmetic), JASSS
  4. 'The Road to Reality': A Really Long History of Time, NY T imes
    1. Interviews:'A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe', NPR TOTN
  5. Dark Matter Need Not Apply, Science Now
    1. Unveiling Extensive Clouds of Dark Gas in the Solar Neighborhood, Science
    2. Ghostly Galaxy: Massive, Dark Cloud Intrigues Scientists, Science News
    3. Astronomers Find Star-Less Galaxy, BBC News
  6. Frozen Sea or Lava Field?, Science Now
  7. "How Science Survived"--Medieval Manuscripts as Fossils, Science
    1. Manuscripts 'Treated As Fossils', BBC News
    2. Ancient Alexandria Emerges, By Land and By Sea, Science
    3. Battle Erupts Over the 'Hobbit' Bones, Science
  8. Reading Minds, Science Now
    1. He Thinks He's People, Science Now
    2. Bird IQ Test Takes Flight, ScienceDaily
    3. Is More Choice Always Desirable? Evidence And Arguments From Leks, Food Selection, Biol. Rev.
  9. Making Synapses: A Balancing Act, Science
    1. Soccer Link To Motor Neuron Disease, New Scientist
    2. Anticipating Epileptic Seizures: From Mathematics to Clinical Applications, Comptes Rendus Biologies
  10. A Pathogen Attacks While Keeping Up Defense, Science
    1. DNA Tells Story of Heart Drug Failure, Science
    2. Breathing Life into Dead Bones, Science Now
    3. Protein in Mice May Fight Bone Loss, NPR Day to Day
  11. Chew on This, Science Now
    1. Playback Of Colony Sound Alters The Breeding Schedule And Clutch Size In Zebra Finch Colonies, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    2. Flawed Assumptions Threaten U.S. Fish Populations, Science Now
  12. Forging a Global Network to Watch the Planet, Science
    1. Reviving Iraq's Wetlands, Science
    2. Ocean Warming Model Again Points to a Human Touch, Science
    3. Anti-Wind Farm Report Dismissed, BBC News
  13. Corporate Culture, Absorptive Capacity And IT Success, Info. & Org.
    1. Hide-and-seek on complex networks, Europhys. Lett.
  14. Mind Control, Wired
    1. Rewiring The Body, Business Week
    2. Sad, Lonely? For a Good Time, Call Vivienne*, NY Times
  15. Toward The Neurocomputer: Image Processing And Pattern Recognition With Neuronal Cultures, IEEE Tran. Biomed. Engg.
    1. For Simpler Robots, a Step Forward, NY Times
    2. 'Toddler' Takes a Robotic Step Forward, NPR Day to Day
    3. The Road to Quantum Computing, Science
  16. Building Autos With the Same DNA, NY Times
    1. The New Age Of Sail, New Scientist
  17. The Tipping Points, NY Times
    1. Bush Says Russia Must Make Good on Democracy, NY Times
    2. Wag-the-Dog Protection, NY Times
    3. A Shell Game in the Arms Race, NY Times
  18. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. U.S.-Russia Pact Aimed at Nuclear Terrorism, Washington Post
    2. The Next 9/11 Could Happen at Sea, NY Times
    3. Unveiling a Terrorism Case, Washington Post
    4. The Case of Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, NY Times
    5. It's Called Torture, NY Times
    6. Follow the Port Security Money, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2005.08 Next Issue TOP

  1. Evolutionary Biology: The Power Of Natural Selection, Nature
    1. Ethiopia Is Top Choice For Cradle Of Homo Sapiens, Nature News
    2. Why Humans Evolved Extraordinary Intelligence, Evol. & Human Behav.
    3. Perspectives for Strong Artificial Life, arXiv
  2. Too Many Friends?, Science Now
    1. Discrete Hierarchical Organization Of Social Group Sizes, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
    2. Experimental Domestication Of Foxes Yields Clues To Cognitive Evolution, ScienceDaily
    3. Ready, Aim, Fire!, CIO.com
  3. Wikipedia's Growth Comes with Concerns, NPR WE
    1. The Design And Implementation Of A Web-Based Teaching Assistant System, Int. J. Info. Tech. & Decision Making
    2. The Boss in the Machine, NY Times
    3. World Views of Science, NPR TOTN
  4. Young And Excitable: The Function Of New Neurons In The Adult Mammalian Brain, Current Opin. Neurobiol.
    1. Concrete Spatial Language: See What I Mean?, Brain & Lang.
    2. The Faculty of Language: What's Special About It?, Cognition
    3. Key To Intelligence Questioned, BBC News
  5. Study: Sleep Helps Birds Master Singing, Discovery News
    1. How Sleep Affects The Developmental Learning Of Bird Song, Nature
  6. Neurobiology: Bright Blue Times, Nature
    1. Against the Migraine, Science News
    2. The Cautious Brain, Science Now
  7. A Geological History Of Reflecting Optics, Interface
  8. Hearing Repaired: Gene Therapy Restores Guinea Pigs' Hearing, Science News
  9. Heating the Sea, Science Now
  10. 'Pack Ice' Suggests Frozen Sea On Mars, New Scientist
  11. Tiny Is Beautiful: Translating 'Nano' Into Practical, NY Times
    1. Purdue Proves Concept Of Using Nano-Materials For Drug Discovery, Purdue Univ News Release
  12. Surface Chemistry: Oiled Acrobatics, Nature
    1. Self-Running Droplet: Emergence of Regular Motion from Nonequilibrium Noise, Phys. Rev. Lett
  13. Efficient Bipedal Robots Based on Passive-Dynamic Walkers, Science
  14. Foundations of Swarm Intelligence: From Principles to Practice, arXiv
  15. New Methods of Solving 'Hard' Computer Problems, Cornell University News Release
  16. Who Do You Trust More: G.I. Joe or A.I. Joe?, NY Times
  17. The White House Stages Its 'Daily Show', NY Times
  18. Government for Hire, NY Times
    1. Schwarzenegger vs. Gerrymander, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. CIA Links Terror Threat To Iraq, BBC News
    2. Insurgents Wage Precise Attacks on Baghdad Fuel, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2005.07 Next Issue TOP

  1. Reflections and Insights: Provocative Thinking on Investment Management, FAJ Webcast
    1. How Wall Street Learns to Look the Other Way, NY Times
    2. Tapes Show Enron Arranged Plant Shutdown, NY Times
  2. Analysts See U.S. Goals and Global Oil Needs in Conflict, NPR ME
    1. Fuel Efficiency and the Economy, American Scientist
    2. Pedicabs Steer a Hard Road, Business Week
  3. Gambling With Your Retirement, NY Times
    1. Figuring a Social Security Benefit Under President Bush's Plan, NY Times
    2. Read the Fine Print, NY Times
    3. Mothers And Sons: Preference Formation And Female Labor Force Dynamics, Quar. J. Econ.
    4. Consumer Concern Over RFID Tags, BBC News
  4. Life Sciences in the 21st Century, The Scientist
    1. Life on the Scales, Science News
    2. Optical Imaging of Neuronal Populations During Decision-Making, Science
  5. Holy Evolution, Darwin! Comics Take On Science, NPR ME
    1. The Onset Of Selection, Nature
  6. Biology's New Forbidden Fruit, NY Times
    1. Challenging Dose-Response Dogma, The Scientist
    2. Heartfelt Fear: Findings Link Stress And Cardiac Symptoms, Science News
    3. Cardiology: Solace For The Broken-Hearted?, Nature
    4. Therapists Question Canada's Action on Hyperactivity Drug, NY Times
  7. Neurobiology: Motor Control Of Flexible Octopus Arms, Nature
  8. Tiny District Finds Bonanza of Pupils and Funds Online, NY Times
    1. How to Stop Junk E-Mail: Charge for the Stamp, NY Times
  9. Science Plumbs Memory's Faults, NPR ATC
    1. How The Brain Creates False Memories, ScienceDaily
    2. Inventor Sets His Sights On Immortality, The Associated Press
  10. Smaller Than a Pushpin, More Powerful Than a PC, NY Times
    1. IBM, Sony, Sony Computer Entertainment And Toshiba Disclose More Of The Cell Chip, Geekzone
    2. Augmented Reality: Another (Virtual) Brick in the Wall, Technology Review
  11. 'Quantum Well' Transistor Promises Lean Computing, New Scientist
    1. Chips That Thrive on Uncertainty, Business Week
  12. Blockbuster With a Joystick, NY Times
    1. Is Instructional Video Game an Oxymoron?, NY Times
    2. Music Education And Cultural Identity, Edu. Phil. & Theory
  13. Mind Over Machines, The Scientist
    1. Blind Student 'Hears In Colour', BBC News
    2. Machine Intelligence Meets Neuroscience: The brain's Behavior, Computer
  14. Inflationary Cosmology: Exploring the Universe from the Smallest to the Largest Scales, Science
    1. Light Continues To Echo Three Years After Stellar Outburst [Heic0503], ESA News Release
    2. Dial-A-Splash: Thin Air Quells Liquid Splatter, Science News
  15. The Quantum Measurement Problem, Science
    1. Time And The Quantum: Erasing The Past And Impacting The Future, Science
    2. Physics and Feynman's Diagrams, American Scientist
    3. Synthetic Chemistry: Making A Natural Fuel Cell, Nature
  16. Functional Holography Of Complex Networks Activity - From Cultures To The Human Brain, Complexity
    1. Accelerating Networks, Science
    2. Statistical Mechanics Of Complex Ecological Aggregates, Ecol. Complexity
  17. Ginseng Threatened by Bambi's Appetite, Science
    1. Deer Browsing and Population Viability of a Forest Understory Plant, Science
  18. States See Growing Campaign to Change Redistricting Laws, NY Times
    1. Blaming the Messengers, NY Times
    2. Saudis Vote In Historic Election, BBC News
    3. Mounting Discontent in Russia Spills Into the Streets, NY Times
    4. General Is Scolded for Saying, 'It's Fun to Shoot Some People', NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Marking Down Bin Laden, NY Times
    2. Antiterror Test to Follow Winds and Determine Airborne Paths, NY Times
    3. Torture, American Style, NY Times
    4. A Vital Job Goes Begging, NY Times
    5. No Mullah Left Behind, NY Times
    6. Self-Inflicted Wounds, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2005.06 Next Issue TOP

  1. Knowledge and the Modelling of Complex Systems, Futures
    1. Chatting Freely With Animated Historical Characters, IST Res.
    2. Fostering Social Agency In Multimedia Learning: Examining The Impact Of An Animated Agent's Voice, Contem. Edu. Psycho.
  2. Nations Ranked as Protectors of the Environment, NY Times
    1. UK Works For Climate Adaptation, BBC News
    2. Trade Openness, Foreign Direct Investment And Child Labor, World Dev.
    3. Why Are We Worried About Income? Nearly Everything That Matters Is Converging, World Dev.
  3. The Market Shall Set You Free, NY Times
    1. 'Zero Intelligence' Trading Closely Mimics Stock Market, New Scientist
    2. Getting Rich--a No Brainer?, Science Now
    3. Stock Markets as Minority Games: Cognitive Heterogeneity and Equilibrium Emergence, Physica A
  4. Should Your Next CEO Be a Philosopher?, Knowledge@Wharton
    1. When the Crops Tend the Farmer, Science Now
  5. Taking the Pulse of Technology at Davos, NY Times
    1. Does Your iPod Play Favorites?, Newsweek
    2. Net Regulation 'Still Possible', BBC News
    3. Sex And The Single Robot, The Guardain
  6. A Kiss with Consequences, Science Now
  7. It Can Be Done: Scientists Teach Old Dogs New Tricks, The New York Times
    1. Mirror That Reflects Your Future Self, New Scientist
    2. Why Your Brain is Not a Camcorder, Science Now
    3. The Dream Difference, Science Now
    4. The Unexpected Brains Behind Blood Vessel Growth, Science
  8. 'Darwinian' Funding and the Demise of Physics and Chemistry, Science
    1. Underground Search For 'God Particle', BBC News
    2. Cosmic Birth Theory Gets Support, BBC News
  9. The Dynamic Dance, Harvard University Press
    1. Effective Leadership And Decision-Making In Animal Groups On The Move, Nature
    2. Minority Rule Works For Animals, Nature News
  10. Monkeys Pay For Sexy Pics, Nature News
    1. Sign Language Reveals Fast Track To Grammar, Nature News
  11. Gangs' Deadly Reach Growing Younger, The Washington Post
  12. The Darwinian Interlude, TechnologyReview
    1. Digital Biology: An Emerging and Promising Discipline, Trends in Biotechnology
    2. Search For Life Signal On Titan, BBC News
    3. Muddy Microbes Retrieved From The Abyss, Nature News
    4. Life: In Search Of The Simplest Cell, Nature
  13. Microbiology: Immortality Dies as Bacteria Show Their Age, Science
    1. Bacteria Show Signs Of Ageing, Nature News
    2. Bacteria Enter Their Golden Years, Science Now
    3. Motion Perception Improves With Age, Nature News
  14. Software Taming Gene Data Pool, Wired News
    1. Asia Jockeys for Stem Cell Lead, Science
    2. Ecology: Untangling an Entangled Bank, Science
    3. Traffic Pollution Revs Up Allergens, Nature News
  15. Quantum Computing: Safer Coin Tosses Point to Better Way for Enemies to Swap Messages, Science
    1. Home Computers Search For Gravity Waves, Nature News
    2. Optical Tweezers To Prove Einstein Right, ScienceDaily
  16. Evolutionary Developmental Biology: How And Why To Spot Fly Wings, Nature
    1. Pilfering Crab Has Insect's Nose, BBC News
    2. A Century of Corn Selection, Science
  17. Radio Waves Make Aurora Sparkle, Nature News
    1. Brain Immaturity Could Explain Teen Crash Rate, The Washington Post
  18. Bush Describes 'Ending Tyranny' as a Policy Ideal, The Washington Post
    1. The Torture Papers: The Road To Abu Ghraib, Camb. Univ. Press
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Security Nominee Gave Advice to the C.I.A. on Torture Laws, NY Times
    2. Torture Chicks Gone Wild, NY Times
    3. Australian's Long Path in the U.S. Antiterrorism Maze, NY Times
    4. Reports on Pentagon's New Spy Units Set Off Questions in Congress, NY Times
    5. Pentagon Sends Its Spies to Join Fight on Terror, NY Times
    6. Judge Rules Detainee Tribunals Illegal, The Washington Post
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Complexity Digest 2005.05 Next Issue TOP

  1. Complex Systems, Complex Science: Meeting of Minds, IST Results
  2. Malaria Vaccines: Back to the Future?, Science
  3. A Theory for Long-Memory in Supply and Demand, SFI Working Papers
    1. Modelling Manufacturing Evolution: Thoughts on Sustainable Industrial Development, Journal of Cleaner Production
    2. Growth, Trade And Uneven Development, Cambridge J. Econ.
  4. Fuzzy Decision Making In Politics: A Linguistic Fuzzy-Set Approach, Political Analysis
  5. Climate Modelers See Scorching Future as a Real Possibility, Science
    1. Climate Change 'Disaster By 2026', BBC News
    2. Soaring Global Warming 'Can't Be Ruled Out', New Scientist
    3. Climate Models Heat Up, Science Now
  6. Ecology: Paradise Sustained, Nature
  7. Sizing Up Complex Webs: Close Or Far, Many Networks Look The Same, Science News
    1. Complex Systems: Romanesque Networks, Nature
    2. Self-Similarity Of Complex Networks, Nature
    3. New Roads Can Cause Congestion, New Scientist
  8. Researchers Define Who We Are When We Work Together And The 'Wait And See' Approach, ScienceDaily
    1. Performance Without Anxiety, Scientific American
  9. Working Memory, Psychiatric Symptoms, And Academic Performance At School, Neurobiol. Learning & Memory
    1. Making Memories Stick
  10. Matrix Realized, Science News
    1. Phase Synchronization For The Recognition Of Mental Tasks In A Brain-Computer Interface, IEEE Tran. Neural Sys. & Rehab. Engg.
  11. Google's Search For Meaning, New Scientist
    1. Seeking Better Web Searches, Scientific American
    2. Wireless Boom Is Hackers' Heaven, New Scientist
    3. Machine Learns Games 'Like A Human', New Scientist
  12. Chimps' Sense of Justice Found Similar to Humans', Scientific American
  13. Giardia Bares All: Parasite Genes Reveal Long Sexual History, Science News
  14. An Eocene Big Bang for Bats, Science
    1. A Molecular Phylogeny for Bats Illuminates Biogeography and the Fossil Record, Science
  15. Secret Of The Venus Fly Trap Revealed, Scientific American
    1. How The Venus Flytrap Snaps, Nature
  16. Atom Chip
    1. How to Create a Spin Current, Science
    2. Quantum Dots for Live Cells, in Vivo Imaging, and Diagnostics, Science
  17. Galaxy Patterns Preserve an Imprint of the Big Bang, Science
  18. Ninety Percent Of U.S. Wounded Survive: In Iraq, Firepower Increases, Deaths Decrease, ScienceDaily
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Terrorist Explosive Blows Up Without Flames, New Scientist
    2. Saudi Arabia To Hold International Conference To Discuss Terrorism
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Complexity Digest 2005.04 Next Issue TOP

  1. Bush Pledges to Spread Freedom, Washington Post
    1. The Speech Misheard Round the World, NY Times
    2. Cheney Warns of Iran As a Nuclear Threat - Vice President: 'We Don't Want a War', Washington Post
  2. The Free Lunch Bunch, NY Times
    1. That Magic Moment, NY Times
    2. Culture And Welfare State Policies: Reflections On A Complex Interrelation, J. Soc. Policy
    3. Economics, Religion And The Decline Of Europe, Econ. Affairs
    4. Family Ties Playing A Big Role On the Hill, Washington Post
  3. Chinese 'To Overtake US Net Use', BBC News
    1. 'Evil Twin' Fear For Wireless Net, BBC News
    2. Networks and Cities: An Information Perspective
    3. Towards a Theory of Scale-Free Graphs: Definition, Properties, and Implications, arXiv
    4. Coexistence and Chaos in Complex Ecologies, Physics Letters A
  4. Measuring Literacy in a World Gone Digital, NY Times
  5. Titan Reveals Methane Rain And Rocks Of Water, Nature News
    1. A World Unveiled: Creme brule on Titan, Science News
    2. A World Apart - New Images From Titan Look Strangely Familiar, Science Now
    3. Amateurs Beat Space Agencies To Titan Pictures, Nature News
  6. Warming 'Wiped Out' Most Life 250 Million Years Ago, TechNewsWorld
    1. Meteor Impact Theory Takes a Hit, Wired News
  7. Climatology: Will Soil Amplify Climate Change?, Nature
    1. Arctic Rivers 'Flowing Faster', BBC News
  8. Must Government Go Fishing?, Econ. Affairs
  9. Why Humans Evolved Extraordinary Intelligence, Evol. & Human Behav.
    1. The Better Angels Of Our Nature: Group Stability And The Evolution Of Moral Tension, Evol. & Human Behav.
    2. Walk Like a Man, Science Now
    3. The Crafty Attacks on Evolution, NY Times
  10. Micro Musclebot: Wee Walker Moves By Heart Cells' Beats, Science News
    1. Muscle-Bound Microrobots - New Nano-Machines Are Powered By Heart Cells, Science Now
    2. ‘Life Is Motion’: Multiscale Motility of Nolecular Motors, Physica A
  11. MicroRNAs Exert Macro Control, Science Now
  12. Threat or Therapy?, Science Now
  13. Behavioural Ecology: Transient Sexual Mimicry Leads To Fertilization, Nature
    1. Animal Mimicry: Choosing When To Be A Cleaner-Fish Mimic, Nature
  14. Adaptation Of Brain Regions To Habitat Complexity: A Comparative Analysis In Bats, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    1. A Division Of Labour With Role Specialization In Group-Hunting Bottlenose Dolphins, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    2. Predator Fish Heat Their Eyes To Track Prey, ScienceDaily
    3. Springs In Their Wings, Science Now
    4. Too Much of a Good Thing, Science Now
  15. Brownian Motion, Nature
  16. The Calculus of Caves, Science Now
    1. In And Out Of Equilibrium, Nature
  17. Quantum Criticality, Nature
    1. Happy Centenary, Photon?, Nature
    2. In Search Of Symmetry Lost?, Nature
    3. The State Of The Universe, Nature
  18. Space Weapons: Crossing The U.S. Rubicon, Int. Security
    1. Espionage Unit Expands Rumsfeld's Domain, The Washington Post
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. On Complex Adaptive Systems and Terrorism, arXiv
    2. Commandos See Duty on U.S. Soil in Role Redefined by Terror Fight, NY Times
    3. Gonzales Says '02 Policy on Detainees Doesn't Bind C.I.A., NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2005.03 Next Issue TOP

  1. As White House Begins Social Security Push, Critics Claim Exaggeration, NY Times
    1. The Iceberg Cometh, NY Times
    2. For the Record on Social Security, NY Times
    3. U.S. Trade Deficit Rises to New High; More Risk to Dollar, NY Times
    4. The Pentagon's New Math, NY Times
  2. The Political Economy of IMF Lending in Africa, Ameri. Polit. Sc. Rev.
    1. Fake Logos, Fake Theory, Fake Globalization, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
    2. Grass-roots Justice in Tanzania, American Scientist
  3. IBM to Help Open-Source Developers, Washington Post
    1. Naming Names, American Scientist
  4. A Morse Code For Human Cells, BBSRC Res. News
    1. Life, Reinvented?, Wired
    2. DNA Scheme Builds Computers, Technology Research News
  5. Did Enzymes Evolve to Capitalize on Quantum Tunneling, The Scientist
    1. Micromachine Grows Its Own Muscles, New Scientist
  6. Titan Mission 'Resounding Success', BBC News
    1. Iapetus Moon Bulges At Equator, BBC News
  7. Vestiges of Big Bang Waves Are Reported, NY Times
    1. Big Bang Sound Waves Explain Galaxy Clustering, New Scientitst
    2. Ultimate Retro: Modern Echoes Of The Early Universe, Science News
    3. Our Universe - A Complex Adaptive System, uniorb.com
    4. Going Beyond Einstein: Spacetime Wave Orbits Black Hole, ScienceDaily
    5. Could A Hole In Space Save Man From Extinction?, Telegraph
  8. NOAA Aims for Predicting Tsunamis, NPR TOTN
    1. NOAA Scientists Able To Measure Tsunami Height From Space, NOAANews
    2. First Ever Earthquake Movie Created, New Scientist
  9. Fierce Mammal Ate Dinos For Lunch, BBC News
    1. Our Dinosaur-Eating Predecessors, NY Times
    2. Body Doubles [Cryptic species], Nature
    3. Mammalian Palaeobiology: Living Large In The Cretaceous, Nature
    4. Bird Wings Really Are Like Dinosaurs' Hands, Science
  10. Natural Selection In Humans, The Scientist
  11. Rats Show Off Language Skills, NewScientist.com
    1. Homing Pigeons Develop Local Route Stereotypy, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    2. Anarchy Discovered In The Honeybee Hive, NewScientist.com
    3. Behavioural Ecology: Tool Manufacture By Naive Juvenile Crows, Nature
  12. Testing Hypotheses: Prediction and Prejudice, Science
    1. Quantifying Predictability In A Simple Model With Complex Features, Stocha. & Dyn.
    2. Indeterminacy In Brain And Behavior, Annual Review of Psychology
  13. Brain Organization For Music Processing, Annual Review of Psychology
    1. Human See, Human Do: Ballet Dancers' Brains Reveal The Art Of Imitation, ScienceDaily
  14. Spinal Cord Injury Patients Show Improvement In Early Device Study
    1. As the Worm Ages: Epilepsy Drugs Lengthen Nematode Life Span, Science
    2. Mobile Phones Tumour Risk To Young Children, Times Online
    3. Palm-Nut Problem Asian Chewing Habit Linked To Oral Cancer, New Scientist
  15. Difference Between a Think and a 'Blink', NPR TOTN
    1. 'Blink': Are First Impressions Really that Important?, NPR D2D
  16. Soon, Clean Your House Like The Jetsons, Washington Post
    1. Is It A Cockroach? A Robot?, Stanford Daily
  17. Hydrogen: The Energy Source for the 21st Century, Technovation
  18. Ballots and Boycotts, NY Times
    1. Facing Facts About Iraq's Election, NY Times
    2. White House Fought New Curbs on Interrogations, Officials Say, NY Times
    3. US 'Erodes' Global Human Rights, BBC News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. A DNA Success Raises Bioterror Concern, NY Times
    2. Super Microbe's Life Code Cracked, BBC News
    3. F.B.I. May Scrap Vital Overhaul of Its Outdated Computer System, NY Times
    4. The F.B.I.'s Virtual Nonstarter, NY Times
    5. U.S. Panel Sees Iraq as Terror Training Area, NY Times
    6. Devastating Attack In The Net's Near Future, Experts Say
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Complexity Digest 2005.02 Next Issue TOP

  1. God (or Not), Physics and, of Course, Love: Scientists Take a Leap, NY Times
  2. A Tale of 2 Systems, NY Times
    1. Social Networks and Business Success: The Role Of Subcultures In An African Context, Ameri. J. Econ. Sociol.
    2. King of the Island, Science NOW
    3. Temples Of Boom: Ancient Hawaiians Took Fast Road To Statehood, Science News
  3. Food Colorings, Science News
  4. The Role Of Social Interaction In Bird Song Learning, Current Dir. Psycho. Sc.
    1. Nutrient-Specific Foraging in Invertebrate Predators, Science
    2. Policing Insect Societies, Science
  5. A Genomic View of Animal Behavior, Science
    1. Twinkle Toes: How Geckos' Sticky Feet Stay Clean, Science News
    2. Environment: Early Ant Plagues In The New World, Nature
  6. Laughing, Tickling, And The Evolution Of Speech And Self, Current Dir. Psycho. Sc.
  7. HIV Impacts Human Genome, Science NOW
    1. Frankenstein's Chips, Science News
  8. Antibiotic Recipe Keeps Neurons Alive, Science NOW
    1. Beat Generation: Genetically Modified Stem Cells Repair Heart, Science News
    2. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Deconstructs Brain's Complex Network, EurekAlert
    3. Scientists Find That The Human Nose Is More Complicated Than A Jumbo Jet, BBSRC Media Releases
  9. Scents And Emotions Linked By Learning, ScienceDaily
    1. Motherhood is a Drug, Science NOW
    2. Brain Can Be Trained To Process Sound In Alternate Way, ScienceDaily
    3. Parkinson's Symptoms Reversed in Monkey Study, NPR TOTN
  10. Faces Must Be Seen To Be Recognized, ScienceDaily
    1. Physiology: An End To Adolescence, Nature
  11. Mapping Environments At Risk Under Different Global Climate Change Scenarios, Ecol. Lett.
    1. Weighing the Tsunami's Environmental Impact, NPR TOTN
    2. Triple Slip Of Tectonic Plates Caused Seafloor Surge, Nature News
    3. Tsunami Disaster: Scientists Model The Big Quake And Its Consequences, Science News
    4. A Divided World, Nature News
    5. The Hydrogen Economy, Physics Today
    6. As Hybrid Cars Multiply, So Do Carpooling Gripes, Washington Post
  12. Deflecting Near-Earth Space Hazards, NPR TOTN
    1. In Search Of Hidden Dimensions, Nature
    2. The Long-Distance Thinker, Nature
    3. Gorging Black Hole Makes Its Mark, Science NOW
  13. Mmmmm, Toxicants, Science NOW
    1. The Enigma of Prokaryotic Life in Deep Hypersaline Anoxic Basins, Science
    2. Microbes Brave Briny Basins, Nature News
  14. Bridging The Gap, Nature
    1. Nanomotors Rev Up, Science Now
  15. Advances towards a General-Purpose Societal-Scale Human-Collective Problem-Solving Engine, arXiv
    1. Building a Smarter Search Engine, Business Week
    2. Search Looks at the Big Picture, Wired
    3. Computing Takes a Giant Leap, Pile Systems Press Release
    4. The BlackBerry Brain Trust, Wired
  16. Games Win For Blu-Ray DVD Format, BBC News
    1. TiVo Adds Portability to the Mix, NY Times
    2. DirecTV Machine Will Compete With TiVo, NY Times
  17. Toyota Launches Robot Workforce, NEWS.com.au
  18. Super-selection Rules Modulating Complexity: An Overview, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals
    1. Power Laws, Pareto Distributions and Zipf's Law, arXiv
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. The Spy Who Billed Me
    2. Detainee Seeking to Bar His Transfer, NY Times
    3. Guantánamo - An Icon Of Lawlessness
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Complexity Digest 2005.01 Next Issue TOP

  1. America's Creativity Crisis, Thoughts from the Frontline
    1. Bush Immigration Plan Meets GOP Opposition, The Washington Post
  2. In Plan to Reduce Deficit, White House Turns to Old Projections, NY Times
    1. The Meek Shall Inherit the Bill, NY Times
    2. Reacting to a Dollar With No Muscle, NY Times
    3. We Have Met The Other And We're All Nonlinear: Ethnography As A Nonlinear Dynamic System, Complexity
  3. Devastating Quake Redraws Map, Nature News
    1. December 26 Tsunami in Indian Ocean, Natl Inst of Adv Industrial Science & Technology
    2. The Future of Calamity, NY Times
    3. Shake Down: Deep Tremors Observed At San Andreas Fault, Science News
  4. Feeding Behaviour: Hydrothermal Vent Crabs Feast On Sea 'Snow', Nature
    1. Fallout Feast: Vent Crabs Survive On Victims Of Plume, Science News
    2. Hidden Canyons, Science News
  5. Early Sleep Marks The End Of Adolescence, Nature News
  6. Novel Calendar System Creates Regular Dates, New Scientist
  7. Technology Research Advances of 2004, Technology Research News
    1. The Shape Of Things To Come, Indendpendent
    2. Reinventing the Wheel (and the Tire, Too), NY Times
    3. Ambulances May Get Virtual Doctors, AP/e-week
  8. You, Robot, Scientific American
    1. The Invisible Fighter, Technology Review
    2. Major Advance Made In Transparent Electronics, EurekAlert
  9. China Launches Next-Generation Internet, NewsFactor Network
  10. Robustness, Evolvability, and Neutrality, SFI Working Papers
    1. Human Brain Result Of 'Extraordinarily Fast' Evolution, The Guardian
    2. First 'Atlas' Of Key Brain Genes Could Speed Research On Cancer, Neurological Diseases, Innovations Report
  11. Mathematics And The Mind, British J. Phil. Sc.
    1. Turning Memory Development Inside Out, Dev. Rev.
    2. Magnesium May Reverse Middle-age Memory Loss, ScienceDaily
  12. The Gap in Testing Drugs for Children, NPR ATC
    1. Lilly Shares Fall on Report About Prozac Documents, NY Times
    2. Meditation Gives Brain a Charge, Study Finds, Washington Post
  13. Temperature-Dependent Sex Ratio In A Bird, Biol. Lett.
  14. Concrete Nation, Bright Future For Ancient Material, Science News
    1. The Song of the Dunes as a Self-synchronized Instrument, arXiv
    2. Asymmetric Diffusion, SFI Working Papers
    3. Snowflakes Made Easy, Nature News
  15. Alcoholism And Excessive Food Intake May Share Chemical Pathways In The Brain, ScienceDaily
  16. Can Game(s) Theory Explain Culture? The Emergence of Cultural Behavior within Multiple Games, SFI Working Papers
  17. Middle and Long Distance Athletics Races Viewed from the Perspective of Complexity, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  18. The Partisan Paradox Religious Commitment And The Gender Gap In Party Identification, Public Opin. Quart.
    1. Experiences Make People Happier Than Material Goods, ScienceDaily
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. An Easier, but Less Deadly, Recipe for Terror, The Washington Post
    2. Success Without Victory [A "Containment" Strategy For The Age Of Terror], The Atlantic Monthly
    3. Terror Suspects in U.S. Face Indefinite Detentions, NPR ATC
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